Acacia silver mimosa 20 PCS fresh seeds, Tree seeds

Acacia silver mimosa (Acacia dealbata).

An evergreen fast-growing tree 10-12 m high (at home up to 45 m) with a spreading crown. The trunk is 60-70 cm in diameter. The bark of the trunk and branches is gray-brown to brown, with a large number of shallow cracks, from which gum often protrudes. Young branches are olive green. The branches and leaves of the plant have a light gray-green coating, which is why this acacia received the name silver.

The leaves are alternate, twice pinnately dissected, up to 10-20 cm long. They consist of -24 pairs of grey-green, small, elongated leaflets of the first order. Each first-order leaflet has up to 50 pairs of oblong second-order leaflets about 1 mm wide.

The flowers are grayish-yellow, very small, fragrant, collected in 20-30 spherical heads with a diameter of 4-8 mm; the heads are collected in racemes, which in turn are collected in panicles. The calyx is bell-shaped, five-toothed. The corolla is five-petalled; petals broadly lanceolate or ovoid, pointed. The stamens are numerous, free, on long yellow or orange threads protruding far from the corolla. Pistil with an upper single-locular ovary, a long style and a small stigma. The style, like the stamens, protrudes strongly from the corolla.

Acacia fruits are flat, oblong, elongated-lanceolate, obtuse, light or purple-brown beans 1.5-8 cm long and 0.8-1 cm wide, with separate nests. The seeds are very hard, dark brown or black, flat, matte or slightly shiny, elliptical, 3-4 mm in size.

Wild and winter-hardy silver acacia blooms from late January to mid-April. The tree bears fruit in August - September.

Prefers fertile soil with a neutral reaction, a sunny location protected from the wind. Silver acacia is drought-resistant, but needs watering after planting. No pruning required.

USDA Hardiness Zone: 7 (-18°C to -12°C).