Okay, I’m making it easy this week.
Extra points for the scientific name. 🙂
Category: Seed of the Week (Page 154 of 167)
I chose this tree for mystery seed of the week last week because it is grown throughout the world.
When it is flowering, the bright purple catches your eye off in the distance.
The jacaruanda (Jacaranda mimosifolia) has huge clusters of purple flowers and lacy foliage.
The jacaruanda flowers are long purple tubes.
It grows where there is little danger of frost, including the lower desert in Arizona.
The seeds I showed last week are found within large pods. I don’t have a photo of the pods.
The mini-meatball seeds from last week were from California poppies, Eschscholzia californica.
California poppies are great sources of pollen for bees.
This little gal is about the size of a pencil lead.
The poppies found in southern Arizona tend to be lighter in color, almost yellow at the tips. They were once considered to be a separate species, but are now considered to be a subspecies, They are commonly called Mexican gold poppies.
Here is the unrelated oriental poppy (Papaver) for comparison.
Do poppies grow where you live?
For more information, see Roberta Gibson Writes.