Jacaranda
നീലവാകनीलमोहरনীল কৃষ্ণচূড়া
Jacaranda mimosifolia D.Don
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 11 m
- wide
- 6.1 m
Bignoniaceae
Also called Blue jacaranda, Blue Brazilian, Brazilian Rosewood, Fern Tree, Black poui
Formerly Jacaranda chelonia, Jacaranda ovalifolia
When it flowers
Flowers February to June and August to November in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Bolivia to NW. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full; RHS full, part
- Height
- 7.6 m to 15 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- Purple, blueRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 0.6 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -3.9 °C; RHS 5 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
African irisFlowers July and December to January, when this does not
Bird of paradiseFlowers July and December to January, when this does not
Cape leadwortFlowers July and December to January, when this does not
Creeping WoodsorrelFlowers July and December to January, when this does not
French lavenderFlowers July and December to January, when this does not
Heart-leaf ice plantFlowers July and December to January, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Jacaranda sudamericana, jacarandá, Jacaranda
- root
- jacarandá
- Chinese
- 藍花楹, 蓝花楹
- Catalan
- xicranda
- Portuguese
- jacarandá-mimoso
- German
- Palisanderholzbaum
- Finnish
- loistojakaranda
- Czech
- žakaranda mimózolistá
- Chinese (China)
- 蓝花楹
- Japanese
- キリモドキ
- Estonian
- mimoosilehine jakaranda
- Hebrew
- סיגלון חד-עלים, סיגלון עלה-מימוזה
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Jacaranda mimosifolia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.