Description

The Pink Silk Tree is a graceful, fast-growing small tree beloved for its delicate, fern-like foliage and whimsical, fluffy pink powderpuff flowers that bloom throughout the summer. Its elegant, wide-spreading, umbrella-like canopy creates beautiful dappled shade. For Bay Area gardeners, it’s a heat-loving, drought-tolerant charmer that adds a soft, tropical texture to the landscape once the threat of frost has passed.

• Produces an abundance of fragrant, silky, pink puffball flowers from early summer into fall, attracting bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.

• Features finely textured, bipinnate compound leaves that fold closed at night and during rainy weather, adding a dynamic element.

• Grows rapidly to form a broad, spreading, flat-topped or umbrella-like canopy that provides excellent filtered shade for patios or seating areas.

• Thrives in full sun and is exceptionally heat and drought tolerant once established, making it ideal for hot, dry spots with poor soil.

• Its delicate appearance belies a tough nature, but it is best planted in a warm, sheltered location in the Bay Area as it can be damaged by severe frost.