1. Ochroma manages to attract its clientele through a simple trick of timing.

2. A member of the mallow family, the Ochroma tree lives fast, loose, and on the edge.

3. Africanized honeybees swarm toward an Ochroma flower just after sunset.

4. A chip off Ochroma will even outbob a cork: Balsa has a fifth the density of water, cork a fourth.

5. Africanized honeybees circle the center of an Ochroma bloom, drinking nectar, while a black wasp lingers on a petal rim.

6. Wherever there is new terrain, Ochroma is the first tall, woody plant to colonize it.

7. Bats were long considered the primary pollinators of Ochroma, but recent research suggests arboreal mammals do most of the work.

8. A young boa constrictor bides its time on another bloom; the snake cares little for Ochroma nectar but wouldn't pass up a meal of hummingbird.

9. A praying mantis on high alert waits for insects drawn through the night to collect Ochroma blossom pollen. Navigation lights glow in the background on the Panama Canal.

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10. A hummingbird incubates her eggs in a nest built partly with fibers of the Ochroma fruit, which grows after pollinated flowers wither.

11. A kinkajou's pollen-dusted cheek tells of a late-night nectar binge in an Ochroma, or balsa, tree.

12. A praying mantis on high alert waits for insects drawn through the night to collect Ochroma blossom pollen.