White Bougainvillea

Scientific name to confirm

Eastern and southern Brazil

Fun factThe colour of a bougainvillea is not in its flowers, which are small and white, but in the three papery bracts that surround them.

Bougainvilleas are thorny woody vines with a scrambling habit in the four-o'clock family. The true flowers are small, tubular and usually white; the colour comes from three papery bracts around each cluster of flowers, which in this form are white. They bloom on new growth through much of the year and tolerate drought and poor, dry soils once established.

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Flowering Medicinal Vine South America

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FamilyNyctaginaceae

Also known asBougainvillea

Native toThe genus is native to South America; Bougainvillea glabra is native to eastern and southern Brazil

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.