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Jacaranda mimosifolia D. Don [as Jacaranda ovalifolia R. Br.] Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 49: t. 2327 (1822) [J. Curtis] plantillustrations.org
Spring time is Jacaranda time in Cullinan when all the streets lined with Jacaranda trees burst into full purple loveliness and turning the roads below into purple lakes of fallen blossom. It is reported to be lucky for a blossom to fall on your head, especially for the children who are writing their end of year exams. This road leads directly to the Diamond Mine where tours are conducted around the mine, as well as underground tours of the mine itself.
Diana Instant Square with 110mm Soft Telephoto lens
PSA: So many people say "Oh look how beautiful the Jacaranda are" but I want to tell you how big a pain in the ass these trees are. The flowers fall all over the place. They stick to your car. The leaves fall with little twigs that have to be raked up. And they drop this black dust that makes a mess. But, they are beautiful, when they're blooming.
A Southamerican native, the Jacaranda is grown as a park tree here.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacaranda_mimosifolia
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Heimisch in Südamerika, der Jacarandabaum ist hier ein Park und Alleebaum.
Jacaranda brasiliana (Lam.) Pers.
BIGNONIACEAE
Local: Campus da UnB, Brasília, Brasil.
Ref.: Lorenzi, H. Árvores Brasileiras. Vol 2. Plantarum, 2008.
Jacaranda season is starting in Perth. Waiting for the full bloom.
A snap from one of the Jac trees in Curtin University.
"Jacaranda" Jacaranda Acutifolia is one of the showiest trees at this time of year (early summer) and livens-up Los Angeles where many streets are lined with them.
Jacaranda caroba (Vell.) DC.
BIGNONIACEAE
Local: Park Way, APA Gama Cabeça de Veado, Brasília, Brasil
Ref. Medeiros, J.D. Guia de campo: vegetação do Cerrado 500 espécies. MMA, 2011.
Taken in Grafton N.S.W. All the Jacaranda trees that I saw were purple so this white one really stood out.
Jacaranda rufa Silva Manso
BIGNONIACEAE
Local: Parque Olhos D'água, Brasília, Brasil.
Ref.: The C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden.
Scientific: Jacaranda mimosifolia
Common: jacaranda
Family: Bignoniaceae
Origin: Northwestern Argentina and adjacent Bolivia into Brazil; widely cultivated in warm and tropical regions around the world. Jacaranda has been a significant and successful invader species in the northern and eastern parts of South Africa in savanna, riparian woodland and forests in sheltered situations. Also, invasive in southeastern Queensland, Australia, naturalized in Hawaii.
Pronounciation: Jac-ka-RAN-da mi-mo-si-FOO-lee-a
Photographer: Kelly Athena
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Hardiness zones:
Sunset 13, 15-24
USDA 9-11
Landscape Use: Wonderful spring accent tree, shade tree, lawn tree, park tree, commercial landscapes, street tree in southern and central coastal California.
Form & Character: In Phoenix, jacaranda is a briefly deciduous tree in winter/spring, upright, open, irregular, sometimes round headed.
Growth Habit: Moderate growth rate to 50 feet in height with a near equal spread.
Foliage/texture: Large, bi-pinnately compound leaves to 20 inches long on coarse, green brittle stems, opposite arrangement, older stems with prominent lenticels; medium texture.
Flowers & fruits: Clusters of wonderful, terminal, large showy, tubular, lilac-blue flowers; fruit is a hard, circular, dark brown pod, 2 inches in diameter ripening during the summer and fall.
Seasonal color: Lilac blue in April/May in low deserts to June in California maritime climates, yellow foliage in winter.
Temperature: Hardy to 27oF. Damaged during the coldest winters in Phoenix.
Light: Full sun, though avoid reflected or western sunlight on the trunk as it is susceptible to sunscald.
Soil: Tolerant, but well drained is preferred.
Watering: Needs deep, regular irrigations
Pruning: Elevate canopy base, shape and stake trees when young to promote a standard form, otherwise jacaranda will have multiple trunks.
Propagation: Seed, softwood cuttings.
Disease and pests: Various root and stem rot pathogens
Additional comments: Jacaranda is susceptible to high temperature trunkscald injury and low temperature freezing injury in Phoenix; because of this I do not advocate extensive use of this otherwise gorgeous landscape tree in Phoenix landscapes. Jacaranda is the great skyline tree of Santa Barbara, California. In short, this is a `California' landscape tree brought to Phoenix where it is a marginal performer because of our supraoptimal summer temperatures and winter cold. Occasionally though, winter weather will cooperate and such was the case in the 1997-98, 2002-03, and 2004-05 winters when El Nino rains induced a spectacular spring floral display. Cultivar 'Alba' has white flowers. Jacaranda trees produce moderate amounts of litter debris.
The Jacaranda cultivar 'Alba' produces brilliant white flowers.
Species from South America
Common name: Jacaranda
Photographed growing as a landscape plant in Redwood City, California