Plants · La Saladita, Guerrero

blue jacaranda

Jacaranda mimosifolia

Spanish: Jacaranda

blue jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia)
Photographed by sallyslak on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC · taken in Garden, not near La Saladita

Jacaranda mimosifolia is a sub-tropical tree native to south-central South America that has been widely planted elsewhere because of its attractive and long-lasting pale indigo flowers. It is also known as jacaranda, blue jacaranda, black poui, or as the fern tree. Older sources call it Jacaranda acutifolia, but it is nowadays more usually classified as Jacaranda mimosifolia. In scientific usage, the name "jacaranda" refers to the genus Jacaranda, which has many other members, but in horticultural

TaxonomyMagnoliopsida › Lamiales › Bignoniaceae
IUCN statusVulnerable (VU)
Local recordsNot recorded by research-grade iNaturalist observations within about 50 km; listed from the site's curated guide
Global records28,975 on iNaturalist

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Cite as: “blue jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/jacaranda-mimosifolia/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.