Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Jacaranda mimosifolia
Jacaranda
Bignoniaceae
Forest, woodland, grassland, near railway lines, and along streams. Coast and ranges north of Burrill Lake. Occasionally elsewhere.
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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