Silk Tree
Albizia sp?
Observed at Haller Park at Bamburi Cement, Mombasa, Kenya. January 2012.
FLOWERS: Many flowers are grouped together into a spherical cluster.
Each flower is a very slender, long tube with the stamens and style exposed at
the end. In this species the flowers are white and pink terminally.
TREE: Small tree.
LEAVES: Leaves are twice compound with two to five pairs of pinnae. Each
pinnae is subdivided into about six leaflets.
RANGE: I did not see any evidence of insect feeding.
FRUIT: Bean pods. No fruit were present at the time of this observation.
UNARMED. No thorns.