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a tree that throws a purple riot then dares you to slip on the carpet
means A subtropical tree famous for its dramatic clouds of trumpet-shaped purple-blue flowers, which drop to coat the ground beneath it.
from The name travelled into English from Portuguese and Spanish, which borrowed it from Tupi-Guaraní, the indigenous languages of South America where the tree grows wild — so the word itself is a souvenir carried out of Brazil, still humming with the place it came from.
- bloom curse
- Students say flowering means exams arrived unprepared for
- native home
- South America, now hijacking skylines worldwide
- slippery streets
- Fallen blooms turn pavement into a botanical hazard
- purple cities
- Pretoria and Grafton host massive jacaranda festivals
- slow burn
- Trees can take decades before first flowering
jacaranda mimosifolia — iconic purple-flowering tree native to argentina, planted widely in los angeles and south africa
pretoria jacaranda season — annual october-november bloom in south africa's capital, drawing thousands of tourists to see purple-canopied streets
los angeles jacarandas — thousands of trees lining streets in 1913 from seeds planted by kate sessions, turning neighborhoods purple each may-june