Re Albizzia

Dave: Was the seed from me? I don't think so but if it was all I can
say is I named it as it was named to me!


 near luminous greenish cream 'bottlebrushes' of
flower in late spring make it a most ornamental subject.

The plant I grow as A. l. has yellow-cream bottlebrushes and even this
far north they're out by Christmas more years than not and even when
they miss it only miss it by a week or two at most.

Only a few plants germinated from the seed which was sown  - this
alone was a surprise since my recollection is that it germinates
quickly with almost embarrassing ease.  

Certainly does here. Almost 100%.

 Growth is more
sparse and 'airy' from what I can remember with a fair distance
between the leaves and already, juvenile flower clusters are beginning
to form in the leaf axils.  Again my recollection is that this
normally never took place until very late in the year and several of
my old plants rarely indicated they were about to flower until very
early spring - a month or so before the buds opened. =20

Bud-formation-time about right for my own plants, given the difference
in our climate - ie, I expect mine to form about the middle of next
month. Foliage habit doesn't sound like mine, though. I'd describe
mine as airy, yes (branches well spaced and arching outward) but quite
dense in terms of actual foliage, intervals between same - certainly
'well-clothed,' not at all sparse.

I remember it as a small tree with densely leafy shoots clothed in
deep sea green, finely bipinnate leaves.  The plant I have has long
reddish purple shoots with mid to light sea green, bipinnate leaves
which are quite widely spaced along the branches.  

My plants are much more like your previous incarnation, in terms of
foliage colour and stem-colour - but not in flowering time. Odder and
odder! 

Sorry, Dave, I can't propose a solution - diff. species or variants of
the  one sp -, I can only record the variations. 

Tim Longville
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