Bougainvillea glabra
Paper Flower, Lesser Bougainvillea, Paperflower, Paper-flower, Red Bougainvillea, Bougainvillea, Bougainvillea glabra
Description
A very lush, evergreen sarmentose shrub in warm temperate climate zones.
It displays impressive flowering, especially when leaning against house or fence walls, with a profusion of clustered inflorescences bearing tubular flowers with mainly fuchsia or purple bracts, although there are cultivars with shades from white to soft pink.
Flowering is also very long and lasts in some areas all year round.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Nyctaginaceae
- Genus
- Bougainvillea
- Species
- Bougainvillea glabra
