SOME OF THE MANY USES FOR THE BEAUTIFUL MIMOSA TREE
One of my favorite trees the Mimosa tree AKA Persian silk tree are beginning to bloom.
The reason I like the mimosa tree so much is for a couple reasons. It is a great ornamental tree with its beautiful delicate flowers. The mimosa tree also has another nickname "the happiness herb" for it's medical properties. Both the bark and the flowers were traditionally used as a calming agent. You can help treat depression, anxiety, insomnia and grief.
But one of my favorite uses for this tree is its nitrogen-fixing properties. The silk tree will produce an excess of nitrogen and deposit it in the ground around its roots in little white nodules. As a plant around the mimosa tree needs nitrogen the mycelium in the ground will transfer some of the excess nitrogen to the plant that needs it.
The Persian silk trees is a Great tree to plant beside or with your fruit trees. Not only will the mimosa tree share nitrogen with the fruit trees but it'll also help shade the younger fruit trees that don't need direct sunlight all day.
So if you're looking for a beneficial tree to put in a food Forest setting or just a nother ornamental to spruce up your lawn take in to consideration the Mimosa tree.
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I've always wanted a mimosa tree! I didn't realize it had healing properties as well. Should have known...I wonder how it would do in our rocky soil?
If I had to guess it would do quite well. There's mimosa trees growing all over the side of the highways here in North Carolina and I'm sure it's rocky ground by the hwy.
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This is one of my favorite trees to start off the food forest with some nitrogen fixation. And when you take her down to make way for fruit trees collect some root bark for a DMT experience ;)