Persian Silk Tree - Albizia julibrissin - Exotic Bonsai Tree / Shrub - 5 Seeds

Albizia julibrissin is known by a wide variety of common names, such as Persian silk tree or pink siris. It is also called Lenkoran acacia or bastard tamarind, though it is not too closely related to either genus. Its leaves slowly close during the night and during periods of rain, the leaflets bowing downward. Albizia julibrissin is a small deciduous tree growing to 516 m tall, with a broad crown of level or arching branches. The bark is dark greenish grey in colour and striped vertically as it gets older, The leaves are bipinnate, 2045 cm long and 1225 cm broad, divided into 612 pairs of pinnae, each with 2030 pairs of leaflets; the leaflets are oblong, 11.5 cm long and 24 cm broad. The flowers are produced throughout the summer in dense inflorescences, the individual flowers with small calyx and corolla (except the central ones), and a tight cluster of stamens 23 cm long, white or pink with a white base, looking like silky threads. They have been observed to be attractive to bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. The fruit is a flat brown pod 1020 cm long and 22.5 cm broad, containing several seeds inside. A good specimen for bonsai.