Green-Ebony or Sharp-Leaved Jacaranda
Jacaranda mimosifolia (Jacaranda acutifolia). BIGNONIACEAE.
Planting and Growing Green-Ebony Jacaranda Trees
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow green-ebony or sharp-leaved jacaranda trees in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, fruit, and seeds of green-ebony or sharp-leaved jacaranda
- Growing conditions for green-ebony or sharp-leaved jacaranda
- When to plant green-ebony or sharp-leaved jacaranda
- How to plant green-ebony or sharp-leaved jacaranda
- How to prune green-ebony or sharp-leaved jacaranda
- Watering, fertilizing, and care of green-ebony or sharp-leaved jacaranda
- Landscape uses of green-ebony or sharp-leaved jacaranda
- Pest and disease control for green-ebony or sharp-leaved jacaranda
Growing Green-Ebony Jacaranda Trees
Several cultivars of fast-growing, erect, round-crowned, brittle, deciduous trees, to 50 ft. (15 m) tall, with shiny or smooth, light green, soft, deeply cut and divided leaves, to 8 in. (20 cm) long, each with many feather- or fernlike, oblong leaflets, to 3/4 in. (19 mm) long, usually appearing after bloom.
Jacaranda Planting and Care Guide
Flowers and Fruit
Showy, blue, purple, white, tube-shaped flowers, to 2 in. (50 mm) long, mostly in spring, repeat blooming in summer–autumn, form rounded, flattened, dry fruit, 2-1/4 in. (57 mm) wide, each with 2 seed, in autumn.
Best Climates
U.S.D.A. Plant Hardiness Zones 7–11. Semi-hardy. Best in hot-summer, tropical and subtropical climates.
Soil Type and Fertility
Damp to dry, well-drained, sandy soil. Fertility: Average. 7.0–8.0 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Full sun. Space 8–15 ft. (2.4–4.5 m) apart.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep damp; allow soil to dry between waterings. Fertilize quarterly. Prune young trees to direct growth. Propagate by cuttings, seed.
About This Species
Good choice for accents, containers, screens in arid, meadow, turfgrass gardens and roadside plantings. Good for tropical effects. Pest, oak root fungus, and disease resistant.