The silk tree (Albizia julibrissin) is a kind from the Unterfamilie the which belongs to the kind of the screen acacias.

In the kind of the screen acacias the silk tree is the kind, which is common in the moderate climate zones furthest. This tree can bear temperatures up to -30 degrees. It is until east China common of Iran.

The tree received its name due to the seidigen, cream-white to dark-pink Whereupon the botanische kind name refers julibrissin, which means translated for instance flock oaths. Under ideal circumstances the tree reaches a height of six to eight meters. The kind is short-lived and becomes rarely older than thirty years.

In North America the silk tree is maintained as ornamental plant and called occasionally falsely Mimose. In some Federal States this tree is verwildert as a garden refugee and ranks among the invasiven Neophyten.

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