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Trees <br />Albizia julibrissin — mimosa tree <br />• Trees to _ ft, with spreading crown <br />• Unarmed, i.e., no thorns or prickles <br />• Leaves twice compound, leaflets tiny, many <br />• Flowers in pink "powder -puff' clusters <br />• Fruit a long, flat pod <br />Albizia lebbeck — woman's tongue <br />• Trees to 65 ft, with spreading crown <br />• Unarmed, i.e., no thorns or prickles <br />• Leaves twice compound, leaflets 1-2 in. <br />long <br />• Flowers in yellowish "powder -puff" clusters <br />• Fruit a flat long pod, persisting & "rattling" <br />in wind <br />Casuarina equisetifolia — Australian -pine <br />• Trees to 150 ft, with open crown <br />• Branchlets thin, grayish green <br />• Leaves tiny, scalelike, in whorls of 6-8 <br />• Flowers tiny, unisexual, on same tree <br />• Fruits in woody, conelike clusters <br />scale -like <br />leaves <br />flower clusters, <br />female above <br />Casuarina glauca — thicket Australian -pine <br />• Trees to 65 ft, with dense crown <br />• Spreads by root suckers <br />• Branchlets thin, green, often waxy <br />• Leaves tiny, scalelike, in whorls of 12-17 <br />• Flowers tiny, mostly male trees in Florida <br />branchlets <br />male flower <br />clusters (spikes) <br />