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 ...

Some people find the seed pods that stick around after the leaves drop a little messy. The more summer heat the tree gets the better it grows and blooms. ‘It is OK for us to plant the silk tree ...

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 ...