It’s almost official. Milpitas has a city tree — the Jacaranda mimosifolia. If you don’t recognize the name, check out the big tree next to Milpitas City Hall that blooms with bluish/lavender flowers ...

Jacaranda tree in bloom against a blue sky - Simon Mcgill/Getty Images Also known as the fern tree because of its fern-like foliage, the jacaranda tree (Jacaranda mimosifolia) is a deciduous species ...

The Jacaranda mimosifolia or jacaranda tree is one of the more than 65,000 trees that call Redlands home. This exotic tree is filled with amethyst-colored clouds of trumpet-shaped blossoms. Even the ...

What would Los Angeles be like without the nearly 30,000 jacaranda trees on city streets? It depends on who you ask. "The tree stands for California at its worst: all flash, no substance, a pain left ...

WHITTIER – It’s still springtime in Whittier and that means the jacaranda trees are in full bloom along La Cuarta Street. The trees, formally known as Jacaranda mimosifolia, are native to South ...

Check out a slide show of these beautiful purple blooms. I remember an e-mail from five years back. It was from a man in England who wanted to know what the purple trees were. He had been visiting ...

L.A.’s cherry blossoms The scientific name for them is Jacaranda mimosifolia. They originated in Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia, and tend to be 25 to 40 feet tall and can be just as wide.

The drive down Pasadena’s Del Mar Boulevard under a canopy of ultraviolet-blue jacarandas has lost none of its effect on Roland Clements after all these years. Clements first saw the blooming trees ...

There’s a poetic symmetry to spring. Across the Coachella Valley it can be seen, beheld in the colors coming out as the temperatures rise and the winds begin to blow signaling the inevitable heat of ...

It”s almost official. Milpitas has a city tree — the Jacaranda mimosifolia. If you don”t recognize the name, check out the big tree next to Milpitas City Hall that blooms with bluish/lavender flowers ...