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Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas [1] while cultivated around the world. The generic name is also used as the common name. The species Jacaranda mimosifolia [2] has achieved a cosmopolitan distribution due to introductions, to the extent ...
Jacaranda chelonia Griseb. Jacaranda acutifolia auct. non Humb. & Bonpl. 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 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 .
Young trees have a long trunk with no branches. Large leaves grow directly from the top of the trunk giving them an appearance similar to tree ferns. When mature, J. copaia grows to 30 to 35 metres (98 to 115 ft) and is normally branch free for more than 50% of its height. The top consists of a "vase-shaped crown" of branches and leaves.
Bignoniaceae (trumpet creeper family) Handroanthus impetiginosus. purple tabebuia; purple trumpet tree. Bignoniaceae (trumpet creeper family) Jacaranda: jacaranda trees. Jacaranda mimosifolia. blue jacaranda; black poui. Bignoniaceae (trumpet creeper family) Kigelia: sausage trees.
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. The tops of the leaflets are dark green and the underside is ...
Jacaranda-rich areas include Santa Ana (nearly 4,200), Anaheim (2,000), Pasadena, Santa Monica (1,050), and the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood (940). Areas with the most jacaranda trees per square mile ...
The jacaranda was a historically significant specimen of Jacaranda mimosifolia tree that stood in the south-eastern corner of the University of Sydney main quadrangle, and now describes its clone replanted in the same location. The first planting was in 1928 by Associate Professor Eben Gowrie Waterhouse, and replaced several times in the 1930s.
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