I chose this tree for mystery seed of the week last week because it is grown throughout the world.

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When it is flowering, the bright purple catches your eye off in the distance.

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The jacaruanda (Jacaranda mimosifolia) has huge clusters of purple flowers and lacy foliage.

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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.