I love mimosa trees, but they are definitely what my grandmother always referred to as a “dirty” tree. She had a Java Plum tree beside the lanai at her house. The fruit made a fabulous jam, but man oh man, that was one DIRTY tree. It provided great shade from the Florida afternoon sun, but dang it was messy and when the fruit was ripe if we didn’t get it cleaned up everyday the stench of the rotting fruit was gagging.
I’ll have to ask my Aunt if she still has that tree or did they finally get rid of it.
We talked about planting a flowering tree in our front yard when it looked like the elm would die ... but it recovered.