Jacaranda Tree

Jacaranda mimosofolia, Black poui, green ebony, Brazilian Rosewood, Neeli mohur, नीली गुलमोहर

“Explosions of brightly-coloured purple flowers cover the tree’s canopy, making it an eye candy for all to see and behold. These make attractive specimen trees and its flowers fall off leaving a carpet of purple beneath the tree.

THE PURPLE TANGO OF HYPNOTIZING, AWE-INSPIRING JACARANDA

Blooming Blue Jacaranda Tree

They also work well when along a sidewalk, as shade trees, or planted among evergreen trees, as they continue to add colour to the area when they drop their leaves in late autumn and winter.”

JACARANDA Flower

Jacaranda mimosofolia, A Delicate Leaved Ornamental Tree, नीली गुलमोहर

Jacarandas are impressive trees in May when covered with clusters of blue tubular flowers.

                                                                  Jacaranda leaflets (Fern Tree)

Introduction

Jacaranda mimosifolia 
Common name:  Blue Jacaranda
Family: Bignoniaceae
Description: Deciduous tree, upto 10 m high. Leaves opposite, bipinnate, pulvinate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle. Fruit a capsule, flat, woody, orbicular, black. Seeds compressed samaroid.
Native: South America

Jacaranda Tree 

Bignoniaceae family

Common Names : 

Black poui, blue jacaranda, Neeli Gulmohor, Fern Tree, Exam Tree. जकरंदा 

Jacaranda trees are also called the Exam tree because it flowers during the March (exam time) 

The jacaranda tree (Jacaranda mimosifolia) is a beautiful tropical  tree that produces clusters of fragrant purple panicle-shaped blooms. Jacaranda branches are arched, forming a canopy shaped like an upturned umbrella. The jacaranda tree makes an excellent shade (or street) tree with its fern-like leaves that can grow up to 20 inches in length. It is a fast-growing tree in a tropical environment, gaining about ten feet a year in its first years of life. Its growth rate varies depending on where it's grown, slowing down to a moderate growth rate outside its ideal tropical environment.

Typically planted between fall and early spring, the jacaranda tree can be considered semi-evergreen or deciduous, depending on where it lives. Only mature jacaranda— eight years or older—will flower, blooming in late spring to early summer (though in warmer areas, the tree can flower at any time). Native to South America, it is an invasive species in several parts of the world.

Jacarandas are large growing deciduous tropical trees with asymmetric open canopies. Between April and June, mature trees explode in masses of bright violet lavender clusters flowers.

The jacaranda tree has an invasive growth habit in the tropical zones of Hawaii, Queensland, Australia, Chile’s Juan Fernandez Islands, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and Zambia.3

 It is deep-rooted, competes with other plant life, and few plants can grow beneath it. It can form thickets of seedlings and decrease biodiversity in an area. 

Jacaranda roots are aggressive and will crack nearby foundation.

Types of Jacaranda :

There are several notable varieties of jacaranda mimosifolia:

• J. mimosifolia 'Alba' or 'White Christmas': Full-size tree with a similar habit and care needs; grows up to 40 feet tall and 60 feet wide; lush foliage; its white blooms might arrive earlier than other varieties, starting in April in some climates
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  J. mimosifolia 'Bonsai Blue': Dwarf cultivar with deep purple blooms; matures at only 10 to 12 feet tall and six to eight feet wide.
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  Jacaranda jasminoides hybrid : Dwarf cultivar that grows 10 to 25 feet tall produces lilac to dark purple tubular flowers

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  Pink

  
  Jacaranda jasminoides ‘Maroon’: Dwarf variety that grows 10 to 25 feet tall with dark maroon-purple blooms 
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  Yellow Jacaranda
  
  

  
  
  

  

  Gulmohor Orange Red Petals

  
  

  

  White Jacaranda Tree

  
  

  

  Purple Gulmohor

  
  

Jacaranda tree seedpod

Jacaranda trees bloom twice a year, once in spring in late May or early June, and again in the fall. The trumpet-like blooms have a freshly fragrant smell, although their decomposition is pungent and foul-smelling when the flowers wither and fall. This tree is on the messier side; sweep and rake the spent blooms as soon as you can to avoid a smelly situation.

The average lifespan of a jacaranda tree is 50 years old, and in a happy environment, it can live up to 200 years.

Its not just blue, its not turquoise, its not lapis, its actually not even cerulean. This is just purple with no brighter color to compete with it under the smoggy sky. All around stand other trees, in various shades of green and coppery brown. These purple blossoms are densely clustered among them, but their foliage have a quality of false promise. As if it were to break into a small heavier growth, but could not. What it could have been but isn't making its beauty more fragile and more precious.

It's the jacaranda tree, standing tall among the many trees of the Humayun Tomb Complex Delhi. In fact, it is positioned between Mogul emperor's tomb and the so called Barber's tomb. Currently its purple color makes it so distinguishable that even those historic domes looks like extras in a one man performance. Most of the year, however it is as anonymous as any other tree.

When the the two tombs come up, this area must have been a far thicker forest, with more trees and this jacaranda wasn't there. The Brazilian tree arrived in India in 1841, and was first planted in our country in the Kolkata Botanical Garden. The tree is somewhat stunted in Delhi. With an open crown and low branching habit.

The Jacaranda begins to bloom as our brief spring ends, or shall we say or when semal tree stops their voluminous blossoming. Its a time when there is a drabness in the city colors, or shall we say making the sensitive citizens long for the sweltering month of May. When the Gulmohor and Amaltas start shooting out red and yellow flowers respectively. In the interim, Jacaranda  discreetly pops up. They show up sporadically, though they are present in all city's principle parks including Lodi Garden, Buddha Jayanti Park and Nehru Park. A cluster stands in Qudsia Park. A solo Jacaranda  stands in the  circle close to Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Museum. India Habitat Center has a well known Jacaranda tree and many people gather there regularly. But that is because the Jacaranda is the name of a conference hall. Gurugram also have a well known Jacaranda which is the name of a road "Jacaranda Marg in DLF Phase 2. Some Gurugram Societies also have a row of Jacaranda Tree (Bestech Grand Spa, Sec 81, Vigyan Vihar Society sec 56)

Is blue jacaranda poisonous?

Blue Jacaranda

It is deciduous, and may bloom twice a year. Despite the beauty of its flowers all parts of the tree are poisonous, 'causing vomiting, Diarrhoea, irregular heart beat, dilated pupils, coma and death'. The palewood, when still green, is used for turnery and bowl making.

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