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Jacaranda caroba

Jacaranda caroba
Photo: João Medeiros, CC BY 2.0

Jacaranda caroba is a shrub or small tree from the Cerrado of Brazil, valued in traditional medicine. It is seldom grown as an ornamental, and it does best in warm, sunny, seasonally dry conditions.

Family
Bignoniaceae (Trumpet-vine family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but let the soil dry out between waterings, as it tolerates seasonal drought.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or lateritic soil; tolerates poor, acidic soils.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Brazil
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Jacaranda caroba, the Brazilian caroba-tree, is a medicinal plant native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil.

Other Jacaranda plants

Jacaranda caerulea · Jacaranda decurrens · Black poui · Jacaranda obtusifolia · Jacarandas

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jacaranda caroba by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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