Jacaranda

on 11/29/04 3:00 PM, Jason D at jjuania@yahoo.com wrote:

> The one change I would offer is that Jacarandas are in
> the Bignoniaceae, not legumes.
> -Jason Dewees
> San Francisco

Duh!  I knew that.  The emperor has no clothes!  I would plead a senior
moment or Alzheimer's, but I've done this before, so no excuses.  The last
time,  some 30 years ago, I wrote an article on the Portland Vase and Lady
Hamilton and the Portland Rose and, along the way,  I located Naples on the
Adriatic rather than the Tyrrhenian Sea.  The editor missed it, so it went
into print.  I was mortified when the gentle readers pointed out my lack of
knowledge of geography.  I knew the difference.  I don't know how, but I
just switched the names.

I didn't die of embarrassment then, so I probably won't now.  But my face is
really red!

I know that the seeds of Jacaranda are little flat, winged things rather
than peas in a pod like those of Delonix regia, which has similar foliage
and growth habit to Jacaranda and which, somehow, I always picture mentally
(out of bloom, of course) whenever I think of Jacaranda mimosifolia.  Hmm...
Maybe I CAN blame it on Alzheimer's!

John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9   Sunset zones 21/23
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