November in Sydney is jacaranda season. Some parts of the city turn into purple, these painterly purple canopies hold on the city and its imagination is so firm that the tree is often mistaken for an Australian native; it’s actually indigenous to Brazil. Nothing says spring quite like a tree-lined street that rains purple flowers, and Sydneysiders have come to associate the blooms of the jacaranda tree to signify the end of winter — similar to how cherry blossoms are viewed in Japan.