25 MIMOSA TREE E H WILSON Hummingbird Pink Flower Albizia Julibrissin Rosea Seeds

Description:

Name: Mimosa Tree ‘E.H. Wilson’
Other common names: Silk Tree, Pink Siris
Scientific name: Albizia Julibrissin E.H. Wilson syn. Albizia Julibrissin Rosea
Color: Bright Pink
Plant seeds: When soil temperature warms to 70F
Bloom time: Mid Summer
Hardiness zone: 5 – 10
Plant height: 30 – 40 feet
Plant spacing: 12 – 15 feet
Light requirements: Sun – Part Shade
Soil & Water preferences: Average
Quantity: 25 seeds
Other: The Mimosa Tree is a small umbrella-shaped tree. Its ferny leaves slowly close during the night and during periods of rain, the leaflets bowing downward as if the tree were sleeping. Its bark or cortex is used to cure bruises and as a vermicide. The seeds are used as a food for livestock and wildlife, and the sweetly-scented flowers are a good nectar source for honey bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. The Mimosa Tree is tolerant of heat and drought, but the “EH Wilson” cultivar is more cold hardy and has more colorful flowers than the common Albizia Julibrissin. ‘Ernest Wilson’ has won a Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.