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Jacaranda mimosifolia is a sub-tropical tree native to south-central South America that has been widely planted elsewhere because of its attractive and long-lasting violet-colored flowers. It is also known as the jacaranda, blue jacaranda, black poui, Nupur or fern tree.
Jacaranda caerula was described in 1805 by French naturalist Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire. [4] It grows up to 12 metres (39 ft) in height and has 40 cm long, bipinnate leaves each with 8 to 26 pinna. [5] The flowers are purplish blue in colour with a tubular shape, being narrower towards the base and larger at the tip.
The name is of South American (more specifically Tupi-Guarani) origin, meaning fragrant. [3] The word jacaranda was described in A supplement to Mr. Chambers's Cyclopædia, 1st ed., (1753) as "a name given by some authors to the tree the wood of which is the log-wood, used in dyeing and medicine" and as being of Tupi-Guarani origin, [4] [5] by way of Portuguese. [6]
Last year, the jacarandas didn't bloom until mid-June. This year, many are flowering from Long Beach to Santa Monica to Pasadena, a more typical timeline for the love-it-or-hate-it tree.
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Many species of Bignoniaceae have some use, either commercially or ethnobotanically, but the most important, by far, are those planted as ornamentals, especially the flowering trees. Jacaranda, Campsis, Pyrostegia, Tabebuia, Catalpa, Roseodendron, Handroanthus and Crescentia all have species of horticultural significance, at least in warm climates.
The dream ended once the blossoms began to drop. One petal became four, and then it became a mess.
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