Flowering · Vine
Red Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea sp.
South America
Fun factThe genus honours Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), the French naval officer on whose expedition the plant was collected.
Bougainvillea is a vigorous, thorny, scrambling woody vine of the four-o'clock family. Its true flowers are small cream tubes, three to a cluster, but each cluster is surrounded by three to six papery, brightly coloured bracts, in this case red, which give the plant its display and its name of paper flower. It blooms almost continuously in warm climates and tolerates drought, heat and salt.
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FamilyNyctaginaceae
Spanish nameVeranera
Also known asBougainvillea, Paper flower, Veranera, Bugambilia, Santa Rita
Native toThe genus is native to South America
| Tag | Garden area | Zone | Planted | Status | Sponsored | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | North Fenceline | — | 5 July 2019 | Planted | — | 100 Plants |
1 of these has no tag yet; it will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.