Jacaranda mimosifolia

General Description:

Jacaranda mimosifolia an elegant shrub or medium-sized tree, commonly cultivated in Indian gardens for its finely divided foliage and beautiful folowers. Leaves alternate or almost opposite, bipinnate; pinnae in many pairs, each iwth 10-24 or more pairs of oblong-rhomboid leaflets with the end one larger; flowers bluish violet, in loose panicles; fruit an oblong, ovoid or broad capsule.