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Series 2, Lesson 36: Mimosa

 
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Series 2, Lesson 36: Mimosa
In this video, I tell you about the medicinal properties of my favorite flowering tree, Mimosa.  It improves mood, helps with anxiety and pain, has antihistamine properties and makes the perfect cocktail! This is the first video of the new series that will utilize better cameras and microphones and will allow me to go out into the woods and field so I can show you how to identify and use medicinal and edible plants.  Good things to come!
https://youtu.be/_PIdO9D3Y6Q

 
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Yay! I posted a fairly long-ish comment on your YouTube post, and of course, liked it.
 
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Carla Burke wrote:Yay! I posted a fairly long-ish comment on your YouTube post, and of course, liked it.


Awesome, thanks!
 
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I have been coopiciing mimosa for a couple years now, it blows me away at how fast it grow back after it has been cut down....  


Was not aware hot it was a good nitro fixer  I will have to plant some tomatoes next to it....


So far my favorite nitro fixer has been ->  Leucaena  as the leaves have so much protein.
 
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Mart Hale wrote:I have been coopiciing mimosa for a couple years now, it blows me away at how fast it grow back after it has been cut down....  


Please explain the "coppicing" process. Do you get flowers?

 
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Lydia Hubbell wrote:

Mart Hale wrote:I have been coopiciing mimosa for a couple years now, it blows me away at how fast it grow back after it has been cut down....  


Please explain the "coppicing" process. Do you get flowers?



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I harvest the wood for poles for my solar panels.

 
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Hello - is this the "mimosa" whose leaves fold up when touched? The flowers look similar. (Mimosa pudica)
"Mimosa" was imported to UK as a cut flower when I was a kid.  It's one from Australia - Acacia dealbata and has lots of bright yellow pom-pom flowers.  I've taken to learning the Latin names of plants for easier conversations with folks from different countries.
 
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Jill Dyer wrote:Hello - is this the "mimosa" whose leaves fold up when touched? The flowers look similar. (Mimosa pudica)
"Mimosa" was imported to UK as a cut flower when I was a kid.  It's one from Australia - Acacia dealbata and has lots of bright yellow pom-pom flowers.  I've taken to learning the Latin names of plants for easier conversations with folks from different countries.



We call that one "sensitive flower".  It is very similar but lower growing.
 
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I just want to point out that the mimosa tree is non-native and considered highly invasive in the SE US, and likely other places as well.
https://triangleland.org/stewardship/the-invasive-mimosa
 
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Is it invasive up north too, or mostly a Southeast thing? Here on Long Island I mostly just see it planted in yards.
 
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Annie Collins wrote:I just want to point out that the mimosa tree is non-native and considered highly invasive in the SE US, and likely other places as well.
https://triangleland.org/stewardship/the-invasive-mimosa



Oranges are non native to Florida, but they do very well here and provide excellent orange juice.

It is good to know mimosa is invasive, but invasive can be manged well with a good grounds manager, can be used for wood chips and chop and drop.    Invasive to me means excellent survivor, but needs to be managed.
 
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I live where they are invasive. Yup. They are all over. Except for my yard. It took 20 years, I finally have 3 trees. I tried often to grow these from wild harvesed seed. All the trees  I have are under 4 years old planted by birdies. Now I can coppise and make medicines. I say yay for regenerating medicine!

Bonus, I can't see mimosa blooms without thinking of my great grandmother. I loved sitting under the mimosa in her garden. My oldest tree bloomed this year.
 
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Bird planted is the way it goes lol. 20 years of waiting and the birds just handle it in one season. Glad you finally got your trees though.
 
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Joylynn Hardesty wrote:I live where they are invasive. Yup. They are all over. Except for my yard. It took 20 years, I finally have 3 trees. I tried often to grow these from wild harvesed seed. All the trees  I have are under 4 years old planted by birdies. Now I can coppise and make medicines. I say yay for regenerating medicine!

Bonus, I can't see mimosa blooms without thinking of my great grandmother. I loved sitting under the mimosa in her garden. My oldest tree bloomed this year.



This is my experience also!
Although I finally had success growing them from seed by saving the seed until spring and then starting in pots...might have scarified but no stratification.

They are considered a weed tree here and I couldn't wait to have some in our yard ..have always loved their shape and dappled shade and flowers.
Can't wait to harvest some blooms for tea!

And the leaves from pruned branches are a lovely small leaves mulch.
 
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Saving the seed till spring and starting in pots is good to know. Joylynn tried wild seed again and again and only the birds got it done.
 
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I know it's invasive, but i saw this yellow mimosa on my travels through Spain. In the mountain was a beautiful one with a parking next to it. It was gigantic and had lots of runners going up and it was really invading that little bit. But oh boy, what a great soil it had build, it was so loose and brown and rich and damp and forest smelling like, the whole of Spain everywhere i looked was rocky dirt, but the stuff it had build was next level goodness.
I brought it back up north and it survived heavy frosts this winter , it's not picking up as i had hoped, but it's still around. I sure hope it can build soil like the one i saw up there in those mountains one of these days, that would be a life saver. I hope it goes everywhere making that beautiful soil, but i'm still on the fence if it will vbe that succesful as people describe above.
 
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Judson,
just to be sure, is this the tree we are talking about:
'Albizoa julibrissin Durazz'
Silktree, also called Mimosa?

not something in the Acacia family?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia

thanks!
 
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