So long Purple Panic, hello Red Regret?

The University of Queensland's has taken the axe to its iconic jacaranda trees, with a number felled recently because of rotting roots.

For decades, the blooming of the St Lucia campus' jacarandas has served as a reminder to students of the approach of the exam period, dubbed the Purple Panic.

UQ Properties and Facilities director Alan Egan said the three surviving trees would be relocated, adding that the campus had scores of surviving jacaranda trees.

The removed trees will be replaced by Illawarra Flame Trees, made famous by Cold Chisel.

``They have a bright, vivid red flower, and flower about the same time as the jacarandas,'' Mr Egan said.

``There's a terrific display and then the flowers fall off, much the same as jacarandas.''

Originally published as UQ's jacarandas get the chop