Our story starts quietly in a museum. In a cabinet. There, in the dark, sits a small batch of seeds: Persian silk tree seeds. They come from China. They were taken, probably secretly, from Beijing ...

Who wouldn't want to include a tree with pretty pink pom-pom type flowers ... Flowers give rise to bean-type seed pods that are 6 to 7 inches long. Seed pods are initially green and turn brown ...

The seeds are distributed by wind and water and ... This is Moya Andrews, and today we focused on the mimosa tree. The mimosa, or silk tree, with the botanical name Albizia julibrissin, was ...

The seed pods are 2 inches wide ... They often are mistaken for the silk tree, Albizia or mimosa tree. The silk tree has fern-like foliage but the leaflets are larger with a light pink flower ...