Australian Jacaranda tree losing leaves?

Question

We have only been in our house a year and last year at this time our jacaranda had no leaves at all on it. I thought it was dead. Then as it warmed up in November it started to get a few and then throughout summer it became bushy. The leaves started dropping about 2 months ago and now they are blowing off every day. I live in Sydney and we have had an exceptionally cold winter this year. Will it get it's foliage back again for summer, or will it look like it is dead again for another year?

Answer 1

Hi,

I live in Sydney also and you are not wrong with the weather being cold. "Except for the last few days" Your Jacaranda tree is fine. Completely normal to lose it's leaves during winter. Around October/November it will start the grow it's mauve/blue flowers then they fall off. Be careful the flowers do attract a lot of bee's so don't walk bare feet under the tree because you might stand on one.  



The Burkes Back Yard site below has a few more details regarding Jacaranda tree's

http://www.burkesbackyard.com.au/1999/ar...

Answer 2

Excuse me don't speak English fluently, I am Brazilian.  

The jacaranda (jacaranda mimosaefolia) it is a native tree of here  Brazil, it for here is almost extinct, because them Atlantic forest was very devastated during the period of the colonization when the Portuguese almost extracted the totality from their trees. It is a tree that loses all their leaves in the winter.   Like this being is not apprehensive because it will be regenerated in the spring.