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Pretoria is known as the "Jacaranda City" due to the approximately 50,000 Jacarandas that line its streets. Purple is a colour often associated with the city and is often included on local council logos and services such as the A Re Yeng rapid bus system and the logo of the local Jacaranda FM radio station.
Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, is popularly known as Jacaranda City because of the large number of trees, which turn the city blue and purple when they flower in spring. The jacaranda trees, far from their native south-central South America (southern Brazil, Paraguay, northern Argentina and southern Bolivia), bloom every ...
Harties - Hartbeespoort; Blown as well as the large reservoir and dam located in a gap (poort) in the Magaliesberg mountains west of Pretoria; J-Bay - Jeffreys Bay; Jacaranda City, Jakarandastad - Pretoria, after the large numbers of jacaranda trees in the city. Jo'burg, Johburg, Jozi, Joeys, eGoli,Gauteng Province, Gangsters Paradise Johannesburg
This wealthy suburb in Pretoria is famous for its white Jacaranda trees. It is close to the city centre, and to the well-known Brooklyn Square and Menlyn Park shopping centres. The University of Pretoria main campus is only 3 km drive and it is a few minutes from the N14 freeway linking Pretoria and Johannesburg (via the N1).
It is named after the original farm that stood there when Pretoria was founded in the 19th Century. Waterkloof is a highly sought-after area and has some of the city's most expensive real estate, including hilltop homesteads on Edward and Victoria Streets with views of Pretoria. Like many areas of the city, its streets are lined with jacaranda ...
Jacaranda is a genus for 49 different species of flowering plants. It also may refer to: Jacaranda mimosifolia, a sub-tropical tree known for its blue/purple flowers; Pretoria, known as the Jacaranda City; Jacaranda, University of Sydney, a famous specimen in the main quadrangle of the University of Sydney
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Premier diamond mine begins operating near Pretoria at Cullinan. 1903 - "Local self-government granted." [3] 1905 Lady Selbourne suburb established. [5] [6] Large Cullinan Diamond discovered near Pretoria. 1906 - Imported jacaranda trees planted. [7] 1910 Pretoria becomes the administrative capital of the British colonial Union of South Africa.