Summer Chocolate Mimosa (Albizia)

Summer Chocolate Mimosa (Albizia)Attractive airy foliage emerges coppery green and matures to deep burgundy; an open umbrella like form make this a highly desired tree, leaves tend to close for the night; interesting and graceful pink fuzzy flowers are showy and fragrant

A showy upright-mounded shrub with holly-shaped leaves that tint bronze in winter

A hardy shrub that produces medium-large

Heavily serrated double flowers are vibrant fuchsia pink with deep red eyes

yellow and pink buds open to reveal soft yellow blooms with pink edges before turning fully pink

extremely tough

takes pruning well

susceptible to late spring freezes and disease

blooms very early and reblooms with multiple spikes of brilliant white and violet flowers

an open umbrella-like form make this a highly desired tree

Large lush green leaves with a dark spine in the center form a neat mound of foliage

pure white bracts in spring last for several weeks

dark stems hold white flowers with rosy-pink calyxes