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A striking tropical tree that feels like it belongs in a fairy tale.
Reaching 10–15 meters, it is famous for its massive, felt-textured pods filled with a white, fluffy pulp that tastes remarkably like vanilla cotton candy.
Beyond the 'dessert' fruit, it is a vigorous nitrogen-fixer, acting as a 'nurse tree' that improves soil for everything around it while providing a wide, leafy canopy of shade.
I use this to provide shade for my coffee plants. It fixes nitrogen and the fruit is a bonus. Just be careful, it gets big very quickly.
My children are obsessed. They call it the 'Marshmallow Tree.' The texture is so weird but delicious. It grew 2 meters in its first year!