#JACARANDA TREE WITH PURPLE FLOWERS FULL#

When to plant: Feb-March and July-August are the best times for new plantation.Planting distance for an avenue is 30-30 feet plant to plant depending upon the planting arrangement.

It is also not a good choice for planting near driveways, patios or outdoor recreation areas. As the leaves create a lot of litter when they drop which makes it a poor choice near water bodies and pools side tree. These form dense canopy which allows diffuse light enter. Jacaranda branches are arched, forming a canopy which makes them a good shade tree.

#JACARANDA TREE WITH PURPLE FLOWERS FULL#

It needs a sunny spot with full sunlight and grows almost in all types of well drained soils. Where to plant: Jacaranda, is planted along road sides as avenue tree and in clusters in the gardens.What’s in a name The name jacaranda comes from a South American language Guarani and it means ‘fragrant’. The tree represents wisdom, rebirth, wealth and good luck. Symbolism If a jacaranda flower drops on your head then it means good fortune. In South Africa it is poetically known as ‘Jakarandastad’ and the name is frequently used in Afrikaans songs. It is used for making agricultural implements. Importance The wood of this tree is pale grey to whitish, straight-grained, relatively soft and knot-free. The fruit is a capsule, compressed at right angles to the septum with numerous flat winged seed. Corolla tube curved with a wider throat, petals 5. The blue bell-shaped flowers are arranged in panicles on the leafless branches. The bark is thin, smooth and grey-brown, smooth when young but as it grows and matures it becomes finely scaly. The tree grows to a height of up to 20 meters (66 ft). This festival celebrates the town’s hundreds of lilac-blossomed trees with art exhibitions, live music, markets and parades.

The city of Pretoria in South Africa, because of its mass plantation is known as ‘The Jakranda City’, while ‘Grafton’ in New South Wales, Australia, celebrates a Jacaranda festival every year in the month of October. It is a medium sized sub-tropical, deciduous tree planted for its finely cut foliage and showy long-lasting, tubular shaped, pale indigo flowers with mauve-blue flowers which bloom in the months of April-May. Although native to Central and South America, Jacaranda has been planted widely in Asia and Australia. Jacaranda mimosifolia, a beauty with fragrance, belongs to Bignoniaceae family and is locally called as Jacaranda or Neeli Gulmohar. If you are wondering which tree it is, then let’s introduce you to Jacaranda, the lavendar charm. The tree is very common in other cities too. These are eyecatching and add a brilliance to the well-laid roads in the city. If you are living in Chandigarh or have visited the city during spring, then you must have seen trees with soft purple blooms lining the roads.

Jacaranda tree with purple flowers