Bougainvillea Red, White, Yellow, Purple, Blue, Pink

With their spiky thorns, the species can grow to be 1 to 12 metres (3 to 39 feet) tall, scrambling over other plants. They are either evergreen or deciduous depending on whether there is a wet or dry season. The leaves are simple ovate-acuminate, alternating, and 4–13 cm long and 2–6 cm wide. The plant’s actual bloom is small and usually white, but each cluster of three blossoms is encircled by three or six bracts in the plant’s brilliant colours, such as pink, magenta, purple, red, orange, white, or yellow. Because of its thin, papery bracts, Bougainvillea glabra is frequently referred to as “paper flower.” The fruit is a five-lobed achene with a thin shape.

History

a botanist who accompanied the expedition, was the first European to describe these plants.