It is raining blue flowers in some residential streets in Tortosa----the Jacaranda trees are in full bloom

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Es regnet blaue Blüten in Tortosa. Die Jacarandabäume blühen; auch Palisanderholzbaum genannt.

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Tenerife.

Costa del Silencio

Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Mexico, Central America, Argentina South America, Cuba, Florida, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the Bahamas.

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Finally stopped and took a moment to photograph these in full bloom. I love how Brisbane explodes with these amazing colours every year.

Rutland Street, Johannesburg

Unlike most people

Jacaranda flowers

Are pretty when dead

Magnificent row of Jacaranda

1 October 2005

Pretoria

In March or April, the straggly Jacaranda trees come to life in a blaze of delicate lilac. When you fly in over Mexico City or drive through Queretaro, you see the smudges of lilac everywhere and it is a truly glorious sight.

Sevilla tenía ese color característico de la jacaranda por todas partes.

They say that for each newly born baby boy a jacaranda tree will appear somewhere in a backyard

Jacaranda, South side of Academic Surge, UC Davis, photo taken Mid September

Jacaranda flowers in the Instituto Tecnológico de La Laguna.

Old trees in New Farm Park Brisbane. The canopies of mauve-blue signal examination time in Queensland

São Paulo Brasil

From camera to flickr.

Jacaranda de la Biblioteca Central.

Jacarandas at the "Jacka" - the annual Jacaranda Festival held at Grafton, about an hour north of my home at Sandy Beach.

in our garden

São Paulo Brasil

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Purple Jacaranda trees.

Although this tree, which can grow to about 10 m (33 ft) in height, is native to South and Central America, it is now widely used the world over as an ornamental tree in dry tropical climates.

Jacaranda, Palermo, Sicily, 22 May 2016

Jacaranda against the dust storm sky

Jacaranda in Bloom

Newtown, where the streets are paved with Jacaranda.

[Newotwn, Sydney.]

Jacaranda, Whittier, California, photo taken in October

Jacaranda in full bloom in Mutare, Zimbabwe

Definitely among my top 3 favourite kinds of trees ever. I wish they grew here, too. :(

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Tree with particularly dense, tight trusses of flowers - it nearly looks like a lilac. Growing in the grounds of a school in Dutton Park, south Brisbane.

What do people really mean when they describe a suburb as "leafy"?

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Jacaranda trees in Pretoria, South Africa.

October 2008

Carrington Street, North Perth WA

Jacaranda tree flowers