A friend bought this plant from a SE Qld nursery and, like you, wanted further info. She had no luck and I haven't been able to find anything either. So hope there will be more responses...Cheers, Rose.

I did a search through www.google.com for jacaranda semiserrata and came up with quite a few listings - in Spanish or Portuguese.

I appears it is a native of the Atlantic Forest/Bush of the coastal area of Brazil - more sparse than the Brazilian rain forest as we know it.

A lot of the sites had something to do with conservation and regeneration, as well as tinctures or extracts, but I couldn't find out what it was used for.

The site mentioned below is an article on the Atlantic Forest. You will have to translate it from Portuguese (either use an online translator, or search for it through Google or similar and choose the 'translate' option).

The article should give you a general idea of the general growing conditions in the wild.

I tried to find an image of either the tree or the flower but no luck. However, just for interest, you may like to have a look at the jacaranda species listings on this site.

http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/image/iix258.html

And I thought there were just blue and white ones!

Here is a link that might be useful: Atlantic Forest

Looked a bit further - the common name for this tree is caroba, unfortunately shared with at least one other jacaranda.

Found a piccy of jacaranda caroba, but it might not be semiserrata. Whatever it is, it looks highly desirable.

Here is a link that might be useful: Jacaranda caroba flowers

Thanks Wombat, you're a worker, Happy New Year. Rose.

Hi there, yes when I did a search thats all what I came up with wombat, most of the sites I got translated but they were still no help some sites wouldnt translate at all, tryed to open that pic wouldnt open for me, thankyou all for trying for me. I guess this tree shall be a curiosity for me just hope it doesnt grow too big and that 6m is its true eventual size or I shall be in trouble. Shall take the risk though. Cheers Lou.

Yep, didn't work like that.

Try this -
1. Go to www.mobot.org - which should take you to Home Page of
2. Missouri Botanical Gardens - click on "Gardening Help" on left side of page
3. Go down to "Online Information" and choose "Plant Finder"
4. Click "Search" at the top of the page
5. which takes you to Missouri Botanical Gardens seach page - enter jacaranda caroba and enter
6. You get a Google search (but only searching MTG site) and there should be only one listing
7. Select that and you come to a page of image listings - go down to Jacaranda caroba (or any of the numerous varieties of jacaranda listed) and click on photo. Voila!!

I am now going to waste a half hour or so looking at jacaranda images and dreaming of living in a more temperate climate :-)

Below should take you straight to the site with pics. Ahh the advantages of having a good "favourites" list......there was a post about this some time ago and I kept the link. Prob the same one as Wombat mentioned.

Cheers
Randall

Here is a link that might be useful: Jacaranda images

If you delved more deeply into the TROPICOS database (Missouri Bot Gdn) you would find that J. semiserrata is now regarded as a synonym of J. puberula, and that does have a photo (see link below). It should be admitted that this database can be quite confusing. J. puberula is probably a variable species: it seems to be native right across the southern half of Brazil and crosses the borders into Paraguay and Peru.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:2116419}}

Bought one!, also Big W; just had to tho' don't even have a blue one. Rose.

Wonder how your jacaranda semiserrata is going, Louisse. Mine sat in the pot in afternoon sun for at least 3 weeks , suffering periodic water deprivation without apparent ill effect. Now planted in fill and still looking good. Saw several at the nursery yesterday which were grafted; the rootstock wasn't specified, 'spose it would be regular jaca?? And saw another elsewhere which was mislabelled for sure; wouldn't you be cheesed off if your blue flowers turned out to be port wine? Rose.

Just about to buy one at Perrots & thought I'd do a bit of investigation. Thanks to everyone for their tips. Had a look at the puberula link (thanks Tonyfromoz)unfortunately it looks as if the leaf on the semiserrata specimen I'm about to buy is quite different in fact a lot finer & serated (a la "semiserrata" I guess but I'm no botanist) - more like the leaf of a white cedar.

Has anyone grown any other variety of jacaranda around the sydney area ? I live in wollongong and my suburb has many of what I know as the "common" mimosafolia variety . They are looking at their best this week Dec 5th,however,they must be up to 4 weeks later this year!
I am intrigued having just learned that there are up to 40 varieties

I have a white one growing and it flowered for the first time this year it was lovely, My port wine is still in a pot at the moment want it to grow bigger as where I am going to plant it recieves traffic of the child kind lol, I have planted the blue-purple type on the councel strip, out the front of my house, Im lucky I have no power lines to affect it. I might be moving to melbourne in the future and if I do I want to take a white jacarandah with me and if I still have my port wine one in a pot it shall go as well.

Hi Louisse
I bought a 'port wine jacaranda' about 6 months ago from Hargraves Nursery in Sydney. It seems to be doing quite well at the moment. I have it planted in full sun and our soil is quite acidic which it doesn't seem to mind. I've looked for ages for a picture and found one by searching 'google' for Jacaranda semiserrata.

I had two Port Wine Jacaranda's, about a year old, and after about of storms and heapos of rain they turned their toes up much to my dismay.