Marvelous Summer Chocolate Tree

The foliage deepens to a rich chocolate-burgundy color in summer and is adorned by delicate pink pincushion-like blooms in late summer.

Summer chocolate tree. Thrives in warm tropical and subtropical climates. This fast growing deciduous tree has a wide umbrella shaped canopy with beautiful bronze-green fern-like leaves appearing in late spring. In Tree Plants Seeds.

The Summer Chocolate Mimosa tree Albizia julibrissin Summer Chocolate is an extremely showy flowering tree that provides months of colorful blooms. The tree leafs out in early spring and the new leaves are green. Mimosa Trees are native from Iran to Japan and it was in Japan where Summer Chocolate was discovered in 1990.

Its flowers are pink and are produced in clusters. This makes the tree attractive even when not in flower. Thrives in warm tropical and subtropical climates.

Many weird-colored plants seem to get bleached by our blistering hot summer sun but it has little effect on the deep maroon to brown coloration of the leaves of this tree though some brown-tipping occurs on the upper-most leaves if it gets over 110 F. Summer Chocolate has ferny leaves that emerge bonze to green in spring and then turn dark burgundy to chocolate in summer. This trees foliage is the deep purplish-brown color of dark chocolate.

It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a. View Available Similar Plants. The fringed foliage ranges from bright green to chocolate brown depending on the variety.

Albizia Summer Chocolate Purple Mimosa Tree Seeds. Masato Yokoi was the lucky guya plantsman with a special interest in variegated plants he also introduced the popular variegated ornamental grass called Morning Light. It has been widely planted in the U.