Other names for the tree are florist’s mimosa, silver wattle, and blue wattle. It is a shrub or small tree native to southeastern Australia and potentially an invasive plant in the United States.

In fact, this tree ... wattle flowers at the end of the year, sometimes showing some first flowers in late December. The mimosa has ferny green leaves, but this kind has blue-green, almost silvery ...

Acacias, so rare and desirable for those in the Northern Hemisphere, are native plants of Australia, where they are called silver wattle ... mimosa is neutral to acid, which is why the leaves on ...