Can a 3 year Mimosa tree be moved and still survive?

I'm thinking of moving one. I think I remember reading somewhere that they have a large tap root that may make it hard to move. I was going to try to move it in the late fall after root pruning it in early fall. Thanks for your input.

Which Mimosa is it, one of the natives? or the exotic.
It sounds like you have a good plan for moving it.
Would it be hard to replace if you lose it ? If so you might want to reconsider.
Josephine.

Everything can be moved IF you get the root - or most of the root.

I would be careful and read about what it is in the plant files to see what you have.

It's a chocolate mimosa. I guess I could replace it for around 100 dollars. Who knows, maybe it'll make it. Thanks guys. I haven't found anything about it having a tap root yet.

Those are nice trees. .. . I love them at one time before I went native here. Anyway wait until this fall when al the leaves are off and that will be you best bet.

One article says that young mimosa trees have a deep tap root.
From the University of Florida's horticulture info sheet:

You'll have to make sure that you get as much of these two or three roots as possible. The last time I check on the Chocolate mimosa the price was up to $150.00

Thanks for the information. Do you think these taps roots go straight down? That's the way I imagine them.

Tap roots generally do. Later as trees develop lateral roots, the taps root just becomes another root, but that depends on the tree species. Some trees can have tap roots that go down quite far. Mimosa is supposed to be a shallow rooted tree — in the top few feet of soil. So sometime within the first few years the mimosa sends out those 2 or 3 lateral roots that become more important than the initial tap root.

If you transplant the mimosa, do so in early fall. Transplanting early in the fall rather than later gives the tree a longer period of time to develop a good root system before it goes dormant for the winter.