{"id":882,"date":"2023-05-10T15:12:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T19:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/?p=882"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:24:45","slug":"invasive-species-alert-silk-tree-or-mimosa-albizai-julibrissin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/2023\/05\/invasive-species-alert-silk-tree-or-mimosa-albizai-julibrissin\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive Species Alert: Silk Tree or Mimosa (Albizai julibrissin)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/files\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"University of Georgia Extension\" class=\"wp-image-879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/files\/2023\/04\/image.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/files\/2023\/04\/image-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/files\/2023\/04\/image-768x173.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mimosa (<em>Albizia julibrissin) <\/em>Facts:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is an invasive, deciduous tree that is native to southwestern and eastern Asia. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was introduced to the US as an ornamental in the 1700s. It is not spread broadly throughout the eastern US.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It often invades distributed areas, old fields, roadsides, etc. A small tree that is 10-50 ft tall, often having multiple trucks and a broad canopy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Foliage is arranged alternatel and bipinnately compound (6-20 in long), with 20-60 leaflets per leaf. Silk tree leaves have a fern-like or weatherly appearance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flowers in early summer, when very showy, fragrant, pink flowers develop in clusters at the ends of the branches.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fruit is a flat, 5in long seed pod that develops in the late summer then turns from green to brown and persists through winter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reproduces by root sprouts and by seed that remain viable for many years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trees can form dense strands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To report sightings: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eddmaps.org\/\">Reporting, maps, and more on invasive, pest, and biocontrol species<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=625918862899698&amp;set=pcb.625919209566330&amp;__cft__[0]=AZVkuJnIYRP1Jf7TT2EZn5Aiwnuqj_q5Ct5b5vNY48eS8AEZJI5cz74USod4g38ed7Z63ceosB3kWhaZLUwohCNSMeTnyHmXjH0uAD-0WPWrkgpyLPpt264RNsczEx7q0bU&amp;__tn__=*bH-R\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mimosa (Albizia julibrissin) Facts: To report sightings: Reporting, maps, and more on invasive, pest, and biocontrol species<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/camdenanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}