Mimosa is one of the butterfly-flowering plants that is grown as a houseplant. With good care and an optimal location, they can reach a considerable size despite their delicate leaves. However, caring for a mimosa requires a lot of specialist knowledge.
How big can a mimosa grow indoors?
With optimal care and site conditions, a mimosa can reach a considerable size of 50 centimeters. However, most mimosas remain smaller when grown indoors because they often do not receive ideal care and are difficult to cut.
How big can a mimosa actually get?
If the mimosa receives the right care and is in a favorable location, it can reach a considerable size of 50 centimeters. This is not necessarily to be expected with the delicate, feathery leaves.
Unfortunately, only very few mimosas receive optimal care as houseplants, so they usually remain smaller or even die quickly.
For most flower lovers, it is not worth keeping a mimosa for several years, so the plants kept indoors are thrown away after a year.
Grow mimosa as a bonsai
Experienced bonsai gardeners take on the challenge of growing mimosas as bonsai, even though the plants generally do not grow particularly tall.
Growing mimosa as a bonsai can only be done by real experts, as the plant does not tolerate cutting well and is not easy to overwinter.
Mimosa trees are difficult to cut back
Mimosa develops a bulky growth in the first year that doesn't look so decorative. In the second year the plants can look very unkempt. However, since they are not easy to cut, it is not worth caring for them for several years for most hobby gardeners. This is why most mimosas grown indoors do not reach their final size.
You must not cut young mimosas at all if the plant is to survive. For older specimens, pruning can be successful. However, pruning often leads to the mimosa dying.
Mimosa is difficult to overwinter
The biggest difficulty in caring for mimosa is wintering. The non-hardy plant is grown all year round in warm temperatures. In winter in our latitudes there is usually a lack of light and the humidity is usually not sufficient.
Tip
There are around 500 different types of mimosa. However, only one species is used for indoor cultivation, the Mimosa pudica. It has pink-purple flowers that look a bit like dandelions.