Floss silk tree in the Mission
A Ceiba speciosa 'Majestic beauty' (floss silk tree) in bloom at the edge of the new park (used to be a parking lot) at Shotwell/17th/Folsom in the Mission. The tree and others nearby were planted in 1997. The species normally doesn’t do very well in San Francisco - it is much happier (and more common) in Southern California.