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What type of Key West tree is this? It has beautiful flowers!!?

By · Tuesday, March 30th, 2010


So we found this tree in Key West and it has the most beautiful flowers. My girlfriend just loved ‘em and now I’m trying to get her the tree.
Can you tell me what kind of tree this is by looking at the flower? The flowers were blooming and folling off the tree in March.

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By karmarider859 on March 30th, 2010 at 4:05 pm

Yes this is most likely a Mimosa tree flower though it looks rather large. Could be the photo, not much for scale. If you remember the tree having a fernlike folliage then yes it is a Mimosa. The bad news is that there are some strictly tropical trees that have this same type of flower and will not grow outside of zone 9 or 10 and this may be one of them. The good news is that the Mimosa tree is hardy all the way to the Ohio river valley (zone 5 to 6) and has almost the same flower though maybe not as large. A word to the wise, DO NOT plant near a concrete walk or patio or near where you park your car. When the flowers drop they stick to almost any hard surface and are amazingly hard to remove. Plant in a grassy area and avoid this problem. The leaves are also very nice and like a fern and sort of a chartreuse green. You can even get a new variety with a purple leaf, very pretty, but the pinkish red flowers don’t show up as much against this variety. I love this tree but some people hate it because it can make a mess if planted in the wrong place and can also spread by seed. I have never mided just pulling the few new trees by hand, but I am in zone 6 and I hear in warmer zones it can become a full time time job. I say give it a try, it spreds out with curvy branches much like a live oak (of course much smaller) and evokes the feeling of a japanese garden.

 

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