Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Jacaranda mimosifolia
Common name
Jacaranda
Family
Bignoniaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, grassland, near railway lines, and along streams. Coast and ranges north of Burrill Lake. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced tree to 20 m high, deciduous in early spring. Bark smooth when young, eventually becoming finely scaly. Twigs slender and slightly zigzag. Leaves opposite each other, compound, 11–33 cm long, with 12–40 pinnae, each 2.5-10 cm long, each with 13-49 leaflets, each 0.3–1.5 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, thin, paler below, tips pointed, margins slightly rolled down. Flowers blue to mauve or purple with a white throat, 20–30 mm long, tubular and narrow bell-shaped, with 5 lobes. Flowers in branched clusters 15 - 25 cm long. Flowers mainly November. Seeds with a membranous wing.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Jacaranda~mimosifolia (accessed 4 May 2021)
Description partly based on: http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/eafrinet/weeds/key/weeds/Media/Html/Jacaranda_mimosifolia_(Jacaranda).htm (accessed 4 May 2021)
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