The January wildfires burned jacaranda trees from Pasadena and Altadena to the Pacific Palisades. Some are burned at the base ...

Q. Six years ago I was given a 2-foot jacaranda tree, potted and grown from seeds from a large, healthy, blooming tree. It has been planted and grown to about 8 feet but has never had a blossom on ...

However, to others, jacarandas create nothing but sticky messes on their sidewalks, cars and anywhere else the flowers fall followed by the trees’ seed pods.

Each fall, we get questions about the pretty tree with the pinkish flowers. However, these aren't flowers but rather highly decorative, papery salmon-pink seed pods.

Step two was building tree-planting robots. BioCarbon Engineering’s fleet of drones flies ten feet off the ground, gently firing seed pods into the earth at the rate of two per second.

Jacaranda releases winged seeds which are dispersed by wind. Jacarandas are unique, beautiful trees when in bloom. They can be seen in the Bel Air/New Haven area.

“The Jacaranda no doubt still has secrets to reveal, and in a major milestone, scientists sequenced its genome for the first time in 2021,” he said.

Sophora tree is messy but seed pods are a winter feast for birds.

I am hoping you will be able to identify this tree between our home and our neighbor. Each year at this time the leaves fall and are replaced with the seed pods which are very dry and brittle ...

GROWING curiosities from seed is a great way to cheer up dull, wintry days while the garden is out of action.

“The Jacaranda no doubt still has secrets to reveal, and in a major milestone, scientists sequenced its genome for the first time in 2021,” he said.