Albizia julibrissin Durazz.

Spice Flower detail In the city Inflorescence

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Albizia

Spanish common name: Acacia de Constantinopla. Árbol de la seda.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Chinese-Japanese

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Macrophanerophyte.

Habitats: Garden plants. Cultivated specie. Native of Asia.

Characteristics: A small tree, can reach 6 m. in height, grown as an ornamental. The trunk is very slender and leaves are bipinnate with oblong folioles small and asymmetric. Flowers are arranged in terminal umbels with numerous rose coloured stamens. Pod up to 20 cm in length, compressed on the sides.