MIMOSA ABSOLUTE MOROCCAN

BeschreibungWoody plants native to Australia, having pinnate leaves and yellow flower clusters. The plant has become acclimated to the French and Italian Riviera, where it was transplanted in the early 1800s. It is cultivated for ornamental (flowers) and extractive purposes. The flowers are the part used. Mimosa has a delicate, sweet, floral odor. The derivatives are the concrete, which is extracted from flowers in approximately 0.7 to 1.1% yields using petroleum ether, and the absolute, prepared from the concrete in approximately 20 to 25% yields. The concrete is a pale-yellow wax with a fatty, floral, slightly sweet odor, reminiscent of beeswax. The absolute is a syrupy, viscous, amber-colored or yellowish liquid with a scent similar to that of flowers.

OccurrenceFound in the flowers of Acacia decurrens var. dealhata (Fam. Leguminosae) (Guenther, 1952; Naves, 1974).