You can steep the flowers in 1/2 and 1/2 and use it for ice cream
why_my_pp_hard_tho
I’ve been noticing these all around my area lately, they really are one of the best smelling trees I’ve ever been around.
InstanceElectronic71
Triggered in Alabama 😂
This is up there with kudzu
No_Boysenberry2167
You can make a great tea with the flowers and/or bark that’s said to lift your mood.
PretentiousPepperoni
Mimosa pudica aka touch-me-not
jessicajaslene
I want to smell them 🥲! What state is this in? I’m crossing out Southern California lol. I’ve never seen them here.
Lucialucianna
Grew up playing with them, those leaf fronds open and close on touch and the flowers are like puffballs. I now have Mimosa perfume by Prada but it’s a different kind of mimosa, from small fuzzy yellow flowers.
NDNM
This looks more like a kind of Albizia than it does Mimosa to me, but I may be wrong.
HelomaDurum
Albizia
wiseguy187
Its a mimosa it’s invasive and grows like a weed. They will drop and resprout every where. They are hard to kill and grow like a weed with a fast growth rate which makes the branches weak and dropping often. They really are junk but they have cool features.
wrongseeds
There’s one down the street from me. It’s huge. I live on a small street near a popular restaurant area so parking is tight. This one jerk has a giant truck that he parks on our street for months. Recently he parked under the mimosa before it flowered. Came back to a truck that looked like a cast off from the Rose Bowl parade. He still hasn’t gotten it all off. I love that tree. 🤣❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰
CatfromLongIsland
Just the sight of a mimosa tree brings up horrible childhood memories. My younger sister and I were tasked to gather up the seed pods and pull the endless plants that sprouted all over the damn place. As I got a bit older I had to skim the now slimy flowers out of the pool. And speaking of slimy flowers, they had to be cleaned from the walkways and the driveway. They were the bane of my childhood existence.
In the 1960s these trees were EVERYWHERE on Long Island. And I mean EVERYWHERE! They were the darlings of the landscapers. Then some sort of a blight wiped them out. There are some survivors still around. But it is much less common to see them.
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Mimosa
You can steep the flowers in 1/2 and 1/2 and use it for ice cream
I’ve been noticing these all around my area lately, they really are one of the best smelling trees I’ve ever been around.
Triggered in Alabama 😂
This is up there with kudzu
You can make a great tea with the flowers and/or bark that’s said to lift your mood.
Mimosa pudica aka touch-me-not
I want to smell them 🥲! What state is this in? I’m crossing out Southern California lol. I’ve never seen them here.
Grew up playing with them, those leaf fronds open and close on touch and the flowers are like puffballs. I now have Mimosa perfume by Prada but it’s a different kind of mimosa, from small fuzzy yellow flowers.
This looks more like a kind of Albizia than it does Mimosa to me, but I may be wrong.
Albizia
Its a mimosa it’s invasive and grows like a weed. They will drop and resprout every where. They are hard to kill and grow like a weed with a fast growth rate which makes the branches weak and dropping often. They really are junk but they have cool features.
There’s one down the street from me. It’s huge. I live on a small street near a popular restaurant area so parking is tight. This one jerk has a giant truck that he parks on our street for months. Recently he parked under the mimosa before it flowered. Came back to a truck that looked like a cast off from the Rose Bowl parade. He still hasn’t gotten it all off. I love that tree. 🤣❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰
Just the sight of a mimosa tree brings up horrible childhood memories. My younger sister and I were tasked to gather up the seed pods and pull the endless plants that sprouted all over the damn place. As I got a bit older I had to skim the now slimy flowers out of the pool. And speaking of slimy flowers, they had to be cleaned from the walkways and the driveway. They were the bane of my childhood existence.
In the 1960s these trees were EVERYWHERE on Long Island. And I mean EVERYWHERE! They were the darlings of the landscapers. Then some sort of a blight wiped them out. There are some survivors still around. But it is much less common to see them.
The bag worms love them. They’re a dirty tree
As a Chinese Medicine student back in the day I used to love seeing this beauty in my city.
You can learn what we use it for in [our herbal medicine practice ](https://www.theherbalkind.com/herb-of-the-month-he-huan-hua-mimosa-tree-flower/)here.