Collective feelings post-autumnal equinox are typically drab. It’s dark by 4 p,m,, the weather is unsettlingly temperamental and this particular fall season has been marked by extra strife ...

Poplar cotton — the white, nearly snow-life substance coming off the trees and collecting in grass and pot holes — seems to be particularly abundant this year and is a sure sign allergy season ...

Yes, cottonwood fluff is extremely flammable and dangerous. The female tree releases the cotton-seeds after it pollinates and large drifts or piles of fluff can accumulate.

Cotton-like puffs carry cottonwood seeds back to earth near Scudder Pond in Bellingham. ... “The fluff is actually the seed, so it’s not highly allergenic,” Pillitteri said.

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It is what happens every April across much of northern China, when poplar trees start giving off their cotton-like seed-pods. The phenomenon has already begun in Beijing.

A Muskegon woman's small business is changing lives in a big way. She's keeping memories alive for generations — through cotton fluff and noses cute as a button.

What we’re seeing is sometimes called “Poplar Cotton.” This “white fluff” is seeds from the poplar, aspen and cottonwood trees, not pollen. Allergenic pollen is not visible to the naked eye.

If you're walking around Windsor lately and wondering, "what the fluff is this stuff?," you're not alone. Poplar cotton — the white, nearly snow-like substance coming off the trees and collecting in ...

Caption: Sandy MacDonald, who teaches landscape horticulture at St. Clair College, shows off handfuls of the white fluff, known as poplar cotton, that is collecting around Windsor this allergy season.