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This species is as beautiful as it is flawed. At it's best it is breathtaking and exotically tropical in places not used to such sights. At its worst it will put a hundred seedlings on your property and its sap will erode paint from your new car's "protected" paint. It may suddenly die from wilt and before that put pods, leaves, and other debris all over. But then again it may dazzle you for its charm, elegance, and fine-textured grace. Lots of gardeners can't resist keeping one tree around where it will not be a hazardous mess. Others swear "never again" and curse the neighbor who infested their property with it in the first place. It just may be the most beloved of weed trees.
Larry Hatch
Albizia - Breeding Programs |
web: Dr. Tom Ranney of North Carolina State
University is actively trying to combine the desirable qualities of species and
cultivars (purple foliage, weeping, yellow flowers,
web: wilt resistance) with seedlessness (perhaps triploids). We understand the
first of these hybrids are now under evaluation
Albizia julibrissin 'Alba' |
fc:
pure white, lacking red pigments. There are also very pale pink variants of the
species which fade to near white.
lu: it is not as bold or showy as the pink and near red variants
but in contrast
lu: with them has merit.
Albizia julibrissin 'Athens County' |
fc:
pink
ch: less winter dieback in OH USA than clones of southern US
origin
in: Glasshouse Works 2001
so: Glasshouse Works
Albizia julibrissin 'Boubri' = 'Ombrella' |
ns: this is a commercial name equivalent to 'Ombrella' but not a true cultivar name.
Albizia julibrissin 'Charlotte' |
dr: reportedly wilt resistant but some reports cast doubt on this trait in all areas.
Albizia julibrissin 'Cyrano' |
ns: a listed name in Europe. No description is known.
Albizia julibrissin 'E.H. Wilson' = 'Ernest Wilson' |
Albizia julibrissin 'Ernest Wilson' ('E.H. Wilson', 'Rosea') |
ht:
10-15 ft.
fc: bright pink
ch: more cold hardy than species typical. By one report up to -15
deg. F.
or: found by Ernest H. Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum well north
of the species
or: northern range in Korea in 1918. It was found in the
courtyard of the Chosen
or: hotel, showing great hardiness, bright color, and nice form.
ns: we follow Harvard Univ. and the Arnold Arboretum in using
this variant
ns: of the cultivar name. While 'Rosea' is generally regarded as
synonym of this
ns: Wilson's introduction, the name is used for pink seed strains
and is therefore
ns: likely to vary.
Albizia julibrissin 'Fan Silk Flame' ('Fan Silk') |
fc:
near red tips
ns: may be the same as 'Flame'?
source, photo: RCW Nurseries
Albizia julibrissin 'Flame' |
fc:
reportedly bright near red
ns: may be the same as 'Fan Silk Flame'
Albizia julibrissin 'Ishii Weeping' ('Pendula') NEW NAME |
ht:
8-10 ft.
ha: strongly weeping, somewhat stiff
or: Ishii Nursery, Japan
ns: the name 'Pendula' is nowhere published prior to 1959 and
must be replaced.
photo, so: Pendulousplants.com (online catalog
2002)
Albizia julibrissin OMBRELLA 'Boubri' ('Umbrella') |
ha:
umbrella-shaped - however old trees of ordinary clones have this
habit with age.
ht: 30-40 ft. where cold hardy
lc: darker green than species typical
fc: dark pink (reddish) tips
prop: tissue cultured clone by one report
tm: unregistered trademark is used in catalogs
pat: US PPAF
Albizia julibrissin 'Pendula' = 'Ishii Weeping' |
Albizia julibrissin 'Red Silk' |
ns:
listed with Diacks Nursery of New Zealand as "ALBIZIA
JULIBRISSIN RED
ns: SILK". This may not be a cultivar name so much as a
common name, in which
ns: case it would be equivalent to 'Rubra'.
Albizia julibrissin 'Rosea' in part='Ernest Wilson' |
ns:
this name is usually regarded as a synonym of 'Ernest Wilson' but
when used
ns: for seed strains it is almost certainly best regarded as a
group of colorful
ns: pink variants. The "species typical" is generally pink so the name is partly
ns: superfluous.
fc: bright pink to near red
Albizia julibrissin 'Summer
Chocolate' (2/02)
click
image to enlarge |
lc:
dark red becoming reddish-bronze or brown by summer in the old leaves.
or: found by M. Yokoi, Japan c. 1990's
Albizia julibrissin 'Tryon' |
dr: reportedly wilt resistant but some reports cast doubt on this trait in all areas.
Albizia julibrissin 'Umbrella' = 'Ombrella' |
ns:
this translated name is used by Monrovia Nursery (website 2001)
but we
ns: prefer to use the original name.
Albizia julibrissin 'Union' |
dr: a wilt resistant form
Albizia julibrissin [weeping] = probably 'Ishii Weeping' |
ha: pendulous or drooping
Albizia julibrissin [yellow-flowered] |
fc: cream to light yellow variants are now reported. Albizia coreana (see images above) has some of these same pigments.