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of where to find jacaranda trees in L.A. County. Jacarandas are one of the unique trees that make L.A. a masterpiece, he said.“They’re one of the little insider things…We’re all spread out, but we know and experience them collectively,” Stiles said. “I'm a little bit obsessed with street trees in L.A. because there's just so much diversity of trees, and because your perception of L.A. and what it looks like really comes inside your car for a lot of people,” Stiles said.Stiles spent a few years collecting data from tree inventories from various cities, which document new trees that come in and trees that are removed. If you look at the map, it is dotted with purples.
“It's just something I was doing in my free time,” Stiles said. “I would love to do, over the next months, a full scrub of the data, and to really try to update it, so that next year it's even more current.”