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Albizia julibrissin Durazz.

Japanese Mimosa, Mimosa, Mimosa, Silk tree, Cotton varay, Mimosa-tree

Climate known 51 photographs
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Summary

Albizia julibrissin, the Persian silk tree, pink silk tree, or mimosa tree, is a species of tree in the Fabaceae family, native to southwestern and eastern Asia.

Text from Wikipedia, “Albizia julibrissin”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Albizia

Albizia is a genus of more than 160 species of mostly fast-growing subtropical and tropical trees and shrubs in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae. The genus is pantropical, occurring in Asia, Africa, Madagascar, America and Australia, but mostly in the Old World tropics. In some locations, some species are considered weeds.

Text from Wikipedia, “Albizia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
Durazz.
Native to
Transcaucasus, Iran, China South-Central +13
Wild records
298 in range· 150 open

At a glance

Warmest month
28°C
Aug, mean day; nights 22 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1467mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jul 285 mm (CHELSA)
Light
15–36DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (May to September at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1467 mm a year, wettest July at 285 mm, driest December at 34 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 36 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -3.5 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Acacia julibrissin (Durazz.) Willd.; Albizia isembergiana Benth., 1842; Albizzia julibrissin Durazz.; Feuilleea julibrissin (Durazz.) Kuntze; Mimosa julibrissin (Durazz.) Scop. and 1 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (May to September at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1034 mm of 1467 mm) falls in May to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 22.0 °C against a yearly mean of 14.0 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to March.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1467 mm a year, wettest July at 285 mm, driest December at 34 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1467 mm a year at the habitat, 1034 mm of it May to September. Wettest month July at 285 mm, driest December at 34 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1005 mm to 2407 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 36 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 36 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 13, the highest 90th-percentile month 37).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -3.5 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -3.5 °C, the absolute minimum -8.1 °C, about 43 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 23.3 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -1.6 °C in January (across the envelope cells -7.7 °C to 4.5 °C), warmest day 27.7 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -3.5 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 5 °C in Jan to 28 °C in Aug; mean night from -2 °C in Jan to 22 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1467 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 276 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -8.1 °C and the 99th-percentile day 23.3 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°frost23.3° 99th-percentile day (undated)-8.1° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 15–36RH 56–67 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 276 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C5 / 1–107 / 4–1211 / 8–1616 / 13–2221 / 17–2524 / 21–2827 / 24–3128 / 25–3024 / 22–2719 / 17–2213 / 10–178 / 4–13
Night °C-2 / -8–5-1 / -6–53 / -1–88 / 5–1313 / 10–1717 / 15–2122 / 18–2422 / 18–2518 / 14–2112 / 8–167 / 1–111 / -5–7
Rain mm38 / 20–9250 / 24–11780 / 41–175104 / 60–193128 / 86–224191 / 128–309285 / 154–401251 / 139–352179 / 104–29370 / 47–18957 / 37–12234 / 17–79
DLI17 / 14–2022 / 19–2429 / 24–3035 / 29–3636 / 31–3734 / 29–3631 / 28–3531 / 28–3427 / 24–2824 / 19–2517 / 16–2015 / 13–18
RH %56 / 53–6356 / 53–6357 / 54–6259 / 54–6261 / 56–6564 / 59–6967 / 63–7266 / 63–6963 / 60–6759 / 57–6457 / 55–6357 / 54–62

Each figure is the median across the 276 grid cells holding the 292 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1133:6130 (33.325, 126.525). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -8.1 °C, 1st-percentile night -3.5 °C, 99th-percentile day 23.3 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 276 distinct grid cells holding the 292 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1133:6130 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 33.50_126.250, lapse-corrected +936 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 990 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTranscaucasus, Iran, China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Nepal, West Himalaya, Myanmar· introduced: Austria, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Krym, Ukraine, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Provinces, Turkmenistan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, North Caucasus, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iraq, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Jawa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, California, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Peru, Argentina Northeast
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker35.536, 127.582 · in the densest population, 88 records (30% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 298 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 150 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 106 km away. 1659 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 298 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Douglas Goldman, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (3); (c) Aaron Liston, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Morgan Freese, some rights reserved (CC BY); no rights reserved · CC0 (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Albizia julibrissin, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Saponins as cytotoxic agents: a review
Irma Podolak, Agnieszka Galanty, Danuta Sobolewska (2010) · Phytochemistry Reviews
Evolution of the adaptogenic concept from traditional use to medical systems: Pharmacology of stress‐ and aging‐related diseases
Alexander Panossian, Thomas Efferth, Alexander N. Shikov, Olga N. Pozharitskaya (2020) · Medicinal Research Reviews
Natural Sources and Bioactivities of 2,4-Di-Tert-Butylphenol and Its Analogs
Fuqiang Zhao, Ping Wang, Rima D. Lucardi, Zushang Su (2020) · Toxins
The role of the testa during development and in establishment of dormancy of the legume seed
Petr Smà ⁄ kal, Vanessa Vernoud, Matthew W. Blair, Aleš Soukup (2014) · Frontiers in Plant Science
Using genetic markers to estimate the pollen dispersal curve
Frédéric Austerlitz, Christopher W. Dick, Cyril Dutech, Etienne K. Klein (2004) · Molecular Ecology
Vitamin B6: A Long Known Compound of Surprising Complexity
Sutton Mooney, Jan-Erik Leuendorf, Christopher L. Hendrickson, Hanjo Hellmann (2009) · Molecules
Green infrastructure for air quality improvement in street canyons
Mamatha Tomson, Prashant Kumar, Yendle Barwise, Pascal Perez (2020) · Environment International
Halogen‐Doped Carbon Dots on Amorphous Cobalt Phosphide as Robust Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting
Haoqiang Song, Jingkun Yu, Zhiyong Tang, Bai Yang (2022) · Advanced Energy Materials
Neuroprotective Strategies for Neurological Disorders by Natural Products: An update
Muneeb U. Rehman, Adil Farooq Wali, Anas Ahmad, Sheeba Shakeel (2018) · Current Neuropharmacology

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Albizia 1 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
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wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 137 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.