1
(Entry)
Jacaranda
30 March 2025
Jacaranda mimosifolia
86% certain
- Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Origin
- South America
- Bloom season
- Spring, before the ferny leaves fully return
- Colors
- purple, lavender, blue
- Habitat
- Avenues, parks, and frost-light cities
- Symbolism
- Wisdom, rebirth, and a brief purple season
A tree that drops a violet carpet of trumpet flowers, turning whole streets the colour of dusk.
Care. Plant in full sun with room for the canopy; young trees sulk in frost and in heavy wet clay.
A note. Pretoria is called the Jacaranda City for the weeks when the avenues go purple.
Or perhaps
- Wisteria — 49%
- Lilac — 7%
Notes on the photograph
Copied from the marks left by the camera.
- Captured
- Mar 30, 2025, 7:49 PM
- Camera
- Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Lens
- iPhone 14 Pro Max back triple camera 9mm f/2.8
- Focal length
- 9mm
- Aperture
- f/2.8
- Shutter
- 1/723s
- ISO
- 32
- Dimensions
- 4032 × 3024
Where it was found
The place is taken from the photograph's own memory, if any.
18.9117° N, 70.7548° W
Unfolding the map