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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]
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 subalpina grows to between 5 metres (16 ft) to 12 metres (39 ft) tall. The leaves are 25 to 45 cm in length and bipinnate, having between 11 and 23 pinnae and 17 to 23 leaflets. Leaflets are 0.8 to 4 cm long, 0.4 to 1.8 cm wide and "narrowly elliptic or oblong" in shape.
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.
Jacaranda: jacaranda trees ; Jacaranda mimosifolia: blue jacaranda; black poui Bignoniaceae (trumpet creeper family) Kigelia: sausage trees ; Kigelia africana: African sausage tree Bignoniaceae (trumpet creeper family) Markhamia: markhamia trees ; Markhamia lutea: markhamia; Nile tulip tree; siala Bignoniaceae (trumpet creeper family) Paulownia ...
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.
The dream ended once the blossoms began to drop. One petal became four, and then it became a mess.
Jacaranda caucana is a species of flowering tree first described by Swiss-born botanist Henri François Pittier in 1917. [1] [2] It is native to Costa Rica, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Colombia. [3]