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> Not sure where they came from

South-central South America, according to Wikipedia [1].

I was wondering where they're from as they're also fairly common in my hometown of Brisbane, Australia.

The canonical Jacaranda town in Australia is Grafton.

Having gone to see the cherry blossoms in Japan this year, I was wondering why we don't celebrate the jacarandas even half as much.

Grafton and a heap of other small towns all have jacaranda festivals and we're obviously really bad at promoting them.

The Brisbane Council classifying jacarandas as invasive weeds probably doesn't help either.

Wow. We have about 12 on our short street in inner city Sydney and I thought that was impressive.

I always find it bittersweet how short the bloom is.