I said: "
Brazilian Rosewood (D. nigra), is called in Brazil "Jacaranda da Bahia". Brazil speaks Portuguese. Bahia is the reference to the port city Salvador.
So the Japanese used the word "Jacaranda" for Brazilian Rosewood in the 70ies. Many of those laminated wood guitars from the time are indeed Brazilian Rosewood guitars as far as I understand. But also other Dalbergia species. The link I posted in post #11 talks about yet "another" Jacaranda that is used today in South East Asia and is pretty rare.
The blue/violett Jacaranda tree in post #5 is of course not Brazilian Rosewood
(D. nigra)! Those flowering trees in California or South Africa are "
Jacaranda mimosifolia".
These trees, like most things, are not native to Los Angeles.
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Ralf