A good example is Acacia baileyana, the golden mimosa. Its blue-gray feathery leaves impart an unparalleled softness to the tree’s canopy. Acacia baileyana purpurea is a variety with distinctive ...

At the top of this list is fernleaf acacia (Acacia baileyana), a wonderful small tree with small, bipinnate blue-grey leaves and fragrant yellow spherical flower puffs. Its form is a shapely dome.

Purple-leaf acacia -- Acacia baileyana ‘Purpurea ... tree, the purple-leaf acacia reaches 20 to 30 feet tall and wide. Its dense, spreading canopy is easily shaped as a single- or multi-trunk tree.