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Womans Tongues Tree in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Albizia lebbeck

 

Woman's Tongues Tree

Albizia lebbeck is a deciduous tree with a rounded, spreading crown and pale bark produces showy, fragrant, Mimosa-like, cream or yellowish-white flowers with numerous long stamens, which open in rounded clusters near the stem tips. Impressive, long, flat linear pods, persist after leaf-fall, the local name "Woman's tongues" referring to the sound the seeds make as they rattle inside the pods.

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plant Features
  • Womans Tongues Tree likes full sun

    Full sun

  • Womans Tongues Tree likes very little water

    Very little water

  • Womans Tongues Tree is a little frost hardy: 32f (0°c)

    A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)

  • Womans Tongues Tree likes free draining

    Free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Woman's Tongues Tree

Latin name

Albizia lebbeck

type

Tree

family

Fabaceae

ph

5.0 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Womans Tongues Tree likes full sun

    Full sun

  • Frost

    Womans Tongues Tree is a little frost hardy: 32f (0°c)

    A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)

  • Soil

    Womans Tongues Tree likes free draining

    Free draining

  • Water

    Womans Tongues Tree likes very little water

    Very little water

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full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Womans Tongues Tree is 15.00meters x 25.00meters 15.00 M 25.00 M

Albizia lebbeck

Albizia lebbeck is a deciduous tree with a rounded, spreading crown and pale bark produces showy, fragrant, Mimosa-like, cream or yellowish-white flowers with numerous long stamens, which open in rounded clusters near the stem tips. Impressive, long, flat linear pods, persist after leaf-fall, the local name "Woman's tongues" referring to the sound the seeds make as they rattle inside the pods.


Planting Outdoors

From Early Spring TO Mid Spring

Plant container grow plants out in spring in full sun.

 

Propagation by cuttings

From Late Summer TO Mid Autumn

Semi hard wood cuttings are taken from the current years growth from late summer to mid autumn the bottom of the cuttings is hard and soft on the top. With a sharp knife take a cutting of about 14cms, remove lowest leaves, dip end into rooting hormone, and place round the edge of a pot filled with a suitable compost, water well, they must remain moist till rooted, place under glass but in semi shade.

 

Propagation by seed

From Late Summer TO Mid Autumn

Seeds can be collected from the pods that form after flowers have died. The seed will have to be soaked in hot water so that the seed case softens when they have cooled off plant in pots deep enough to allow the main root is not hurt when transplanting.

 
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