Albizia julibrissin Durazz.

Trees, deciduous, to 16 m tall; crown open. Branchlets angular; branchlet, leaf rachis, and inflorescence tomentose or pubescent. Stipules deciduous, linear-lanceolate, smaller than leaflets; pinnae 4-12 pairs, sometimes to 20 pairs in cultivated species; glands near base of petiole and leaf rachis of uppermost pinnae; leaflets 10-30 pairs, obliquely linear to oblong, 6-12 × 1-4 mm, main vein close to upper margin, base truncate, mar­gin ciliate, apex apiculate. Panicles terminal. Flowers pink. Calyx tubiform, ca. 3 mm, pubescent. Corolla ca. 8 mm; lobes deltoid, ca. 1.5 mm. Filaments pink, ca. 2.5 cm. Legume strap-shaped, flat, 9-15 × 1.5-2.5 cm, glabrous. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 26*.

It is a temperate to tropical plant. It grows naturally from Iran to China in open sunny ravines, forests and by rivers up to 2100 metres in the Himalayas. It needs a well drained but moist soil but can grow in dry soil. They can tolerate high pH, salty soils, drought and wind. Trees when dormant are hardy to-10°C or in continental climates-20°C. Young growth is frost tender. It suits hardiness zones 6-12. It grows well in places with cool winters and hot summers. Arboretum Tasmania. in Yunnan.

The young leaves are cooked and eaten as a potherb. The flowers are eaten as a vegetable. The dried leaves are used as a tea.

Plants can be grown from seed, cuttings or suckers. Seed need to be pre-soaked for 24 hours in hot water. They germinate in 2-3 months at 19°C. Plants can be transplanted. Plants can be pruned and shaped.