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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]
What would Los Angeles be like without the nearly 30,000 jacaranda trees on city streets? It depends on who you ask. "The tree stands for California at its worst: all flash, no substance, a pain ...
Jacaranda copaia is a flowering pioneer tree belonging to the genus Jacaranda. It is native to the Amazon Rainforest in Northern South America. Description
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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 .
Floristic regions in Europe according to Wolfgang Frey and Rainer Lösch Epilobium angustifolium Vaccinium vitis-idaea Betula nana in Greenland Alnus viridis. The Circumboreal Region in phytogeography is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in Eurasia and North America, as delineated by such geobotanists as Josias Braun-Blanquet and Armen Takhtajan.
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