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Leaves are bipinnately compound, alternate, deciduous and fern-like, with 10-35 pairs of leaflets each three-eighths to five-eighths of an inch long with a square top. Leaves fold up under the night sky. Twigs are mottled brown-gray. Bark is smooth and gray. Flowers are pink in pom-pom like clusters and very fragrant. Fruit is a yellow-brown legume, usually six inches long.  Mimosa has naturalized in the east and central U.S. and found on a variety of sites in open and disturbed areas. 

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