Albizia julibrissin (Silktree)
Full Description
Albizia julibrissin is a rapidly growing, small, spreading tree with a profusion beautiful pink flowers and seed pods, making it an exotic invasive. The tree's few week-wooded spreading branches are smooth and tan or gray in color. Its leaves are bi-pinnately compound. Produced from pink and white silky flowers, the fruit is a flat green pod drying to brown. Each pod houses about ten beans.
Edible Parts: The numberous white and pink silky flowers are not only beautiful, but also edible.
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tree:
Albizia julibrissin is a rapidly growing, small, spreading tree with a profusion beautiful pink flowers and seed pods, making it an exotic invasive.
leaf:
Albizia julibrissin leaves are bi-pinnately compound.
branch:
The tree's few week-wooded spreading branches are smooth and tan or gray in color.
flower:
The flower is beautiful, white, pink and silky.
bark:
fruit:
Its fruit is a flat green pod drying to brown. Each pod houses about ten beans.
edible parts:
The numberous white and pink silky flowers are not only beautiful, but also edible.