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Albizia is a genus of more than 160 species of mostly fast-growing subtropical and tropical trees and shrubs in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae. The genus is pantropical, occurring in Asia, Africa, Madagascar, America and Australia, but mostly in the Old World tropics. In some locations, some species are considered weeds.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Albizia", CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Photographs
Photographs: (c) 黃美滿, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Jane Charlen, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5).
Related
Other Albizia 15 in the reference
Albizia adianthifolia West African albizia Photo: CC BY, Bruno - Yolande Zanette
Albizia amara Krishna Siris Photo: CC BY-SA, Vikas D Prasad
Albizia anthelmintica Worm-bark false-thorn Photo: CC BY, Malte Krömer
Albizia chinensis Chinese albizia Photo: CC BY-SA, Dinesh Valke
Albizia forbesii Broad-pod Albizia Photo: CC BY-SA, Brian du Preez
Albizia guillainii Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Monofruit
Albizia gummifera Peacock Flower Photo: CC BY, Dr. Alexey Yakovlev
Albizia harveyi Bushveld Albizia Photo: CC BY, Alan Manson
Albizia julibrissin Silk tree Photo: CC BY, WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
Albizia lebbeck Woman's tongue Photo: CC BY, 五色鳥 Albizia lucida Fabaceae 
Albizia odoratissima Ceylon rosewood Photo: CC0, author not stated all 16 ›Names & registers
Also known as Acacia macrophylla; Albizia coreana; Albizia esquirolii; Albizia glabrior; Albizia julibrissin var. glabrior and 8 more. (GBIF Backbone)
Kew accepts as species of their own Albizia henryi; Albizia macrophylla: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)
Under another author Albizia julibrissin Baker is an older name of this species, not Albizia julibrissin, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
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