mimosa "gauloise" (acacia)

does anyone have any tips on growing these ? (I lost the plant label)

 

Have tried googling on this, and can only find stuff in french and mixed Italian and other languages!! If you don't get any further help on this, PM me, and I'll translate them (used to be a French teacher!)

 

I tried the same, with similar result. P.S. merci ma femme est francais

 

please stick to english,it`s hard enough to find info as it is. Thanks anyway.

 

Do you know what colour the flowers are? That could be a start.

 

Depends on what you have:

All you are ever likely to want on Arcacia. Australian National Botanic Gardens

Also France Monthly: On the Mimosa Trail

However, these are not true mimosa.

Wikepedia: Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica)

[ 06. April 2006, 06:31 PM: Message edited by: frogesque ]

 

Sounds to me like some kind of french cigarette tree.

 

Hi Paulo
if your seed is small, about 10mm, black and shiny it is probably Acacia of some kind , if it is very small 2/3mm, brown and round with a papery edge it is Mimosa pudica. All acacias need 24hr warm water soaking before sowing , then sow in peat/sand mix covering with 4/5mm of compost or medium vermiuculite, at 20/23c.

 

"Thank you all". I have loads of tips now,lets hope my 3 year old daughter decides it`s not a pom pom tree to play with.

 

Paulo, while walking round my local gc I came across four acacias two were large ones acacia dealbata (mimosa) and the other two were acacia "gauloise", the seeds you mentioned. They were cut back to two feet high but had flowers. Comparing them to the popular Acaia dealbata with it's grey/green delicate foliage gauliose is greener and the leaflets and leaf stems are much more compact, one of the parent plants probably being acacia decurrens. This is another hybrid and in time if you get some plants going (they are easy)you should have some true "mimosa" flowers.

 

I didn't know that there were any acacia hybrids, Strongy.
Is this something new?

 

Pete
They have been around for some time but not in the UK. Mirandole, Pendula and Kambah Karpet(a prostrate form) are the ones I know of but have never seen them growing or seen the seed. Maybe as the exotic interest increases more of them,like "Gauloise" may find their way here, hope so!

 

Yep, it would be nice if someone could breed a bit more cold hardiness into them, I can only grow a couple here.

 

As far as I know Acacia Riceana, longifolia, Bayleyana and Baileyana Purpurea, Pravissima and Dealbata are all hardy at least in the southern counties and sheltered sites elsewhere. The more the merrier!

 

Melanoxylon is one I have, thats hardy but not very ornamental. I also have Pravissima and thats just coming into flower at the moment.
I planted a 4ft plant of Dealbata two years ago, it grew well all summer, but last winter killed it. Stange because I have seen a few pretty large ones around here.
I've grown Baileyana some years ago in the greenhouse but not tried it outside, the others I've not tried.