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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 .
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]
Michael King, forestry program coordinator for the city of Pasadena, which has nearly 2,000 jacaranda, or Jacaranda mimosifolia, says the tree's popularity likely spread throughout Southern ...
Hymenocallis acutifolia is a plant species first described in 1826 with the name Hymenocallis littoralis var. acutifolia. [3] It is endemic to Mexico , known from the States of Oaxaca , Michoacán , Jalisco , Veracruz , Puebla , and Nayarit .
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The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Acutifolia' was first described (as U. campestris acutifolia) by Masters in Hortus Duroverni 66. 1831, and later by Mottet in Nicholson & Mottet, Dictionnaire pratique d'horticulture et de jardinage 5: 383, 1898.
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