How many jacaranda trees are there in Sydney?

But one of Sydney's most famous jacarandas is missing from the map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacaranda,_University_of_Sydne...

Would be cool to see the rest of Greater Sydney as well!

Example from a residential area: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAsHX4LXMAADEI1?format=jpg&name=...

"it is estimated that here are now more than 70 000 trees in Pretoria which is affectionately known as Jacaranda City. Johannesburg is believed to be the largest cultivated urban forest in the world with over 10 million trees and the Jacaranda’s contribute substantially to this number, as thousands were planted as street trees, in parks and gardens. Although difficult to confirm, some experts say Johannesburg has even more of these glorious purple trees than Pretoria."

From the article [1]:

They were brought by Felix Avelar Brotero, the father of Botany in Portugal, at the Ajuda Botanical Garden from 1811 to 1826. He offered seeds to whoever wanted to cultivate them in the city. They precede the return of the Portuguese Court from Brazil, at a time when blue spectrum pigments were very valuable. For the royalty this plant, due to its exoticism, had a non-commercial value: it was a way to demonstrate the royal power.

[1] https://www.visitlisboa.com/en/p/only-in-lisbon/jacarandas-t...

[1] https://weeds.brisbane.qld.gov.au/weeds/jacaranda

Sadly, their reputation seems to overshadow the native Illawarra Flame Tree (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachychiton_acerifolius) which itself is showing off vibrantly right now. I'm lucky enough to have a few in my street.

Judging by the title, I was expecting an article about perennial plants with elongated stems or trunks that usually support branches and leaves. Instead, I was met with a series of code blocks, briefly making me wonder if the piece was discussing a novel data structure based on traditional trees. After a few moments, the code blocks were either substituted or supplemented with the actual page content, reminiscent of Jupyter Notebooks. After about 10 seconds, it became unclear whether all the content had fully loaded.

Not the most user-friendly experience, in my opinion.

I think I might be in the minority but I really don’t like them. The tiny leaves fall all the time and make a mess, and the purple flowers smell really bad and also make a mess.

Not only do they make a mess but they block my gutters and the roots have destroyed a lot of sewer pipes. I’d much rather see some native Australian trees planted such as paper barks or flame trees. I really don’t get the love affair with them.

Incidentally, that grouped listing of jacarandas in Sydney doesn't give a realistic picture of the total number of jacarandas. There are thousands of individual trees that transform the streets and you'd never know it from those figures.

>The name is of South American (more specifically Tupi-Guarani) origin, meaning fragrant.

There are other Tupi-Guarani words that made it to other languages, like Açaí, Piranha, Capybara, ...