Are you seeing all these purple trees around Brisbane? Have you even wonder what’s the name? Interested to know more? Read on.
These purple tree are called Jacaranda trees. Jacaranda trees are highly concentrated around University of Queensland area. If you explore this area around mid-Spring period, you will be amazed by the impressive display of these beauty flowers, brought to you by mother nature.
I have been referring these tree as “tree of death” because these tree usually blossom during peak assignment period. These Jaracanda trees also have other slang names such as “exam tree” or “purple panic“.
Students have superstitious about these special trees. One of them are “if a Jacaranda bloom falls on their head during exam time, they will fail an exam”. But the bad luck can be broken by catching another bloom before it hits the ground. And so they say.
Lecturer also said once, “by the time the Jacaranda flower become main quadrangle flower, it’s too late to start studying for exams”.
Government purposely planted these plants along Brisbane River as part of their landscape design. Brisbane’s hilly geography allows the views of the city and suburbs in which the brightly coloured flower can be easily seen for miles.
Unfortunately, Jacaranda only flowers approximated six weeks from September through October.
