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Bougainvillea or Paper flower

Bougainvillea hybrida

Description:

They are thorny, woody vines growing anywhere from 1 to 12 meters tall, scrambling over other plants with their spiky thorns. The thorns are tipped with a black, waxy substance. They are evergreen where rainfall occurs all year, or deciduous if there is a dry season. The leaves are alternate, simple ovate-acuminate, 4-13 cm long and 2-6 cm broad. The actual flower of the plant is small and generally white, but each cluster of three flowers is surrounded by three or six bracts with the bright colours associated with the plant, including pink, magenta, purple, red, orange, white, or yellow. Bougainvillea glabra is sometimes referred to as "paper flower" because the bracts are thin and papery. The fruit is a narrow five-lobed achene.

Habitat:

Bougainvillea is a genus of flowering plants native to South America from Brazil west to Peru and south to southern Argentina (Chubut Province)

Notes:

First photo is two tone color ,it very lovely and very Strength,it can Growth every way and it all so Symbol of n .t .u .n school and i very very very love picture

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1 Comment

VivBraznell
VivBraznell 12 years ago

Love the hot orange shades : )

JirayuAmonsatipan
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JirayuAmonsatipan

Thailand

Spotted on Mar 9, 2012
Submitted on Mar 10, 2012

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