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Bougainvillea glabra

Botanic Family

Nyctaginaceae

Author

Choisy in de Candolle

Propagation

A.C.

Cultivated

C, ornamental, medicine

Hardiness Zone

9-11

Offspring

Bougainvillea × buttiana

Common Names

• Paper Flower
• Guang ye zi hua (Pinyin)
• Bougainvillea
• Buganvílea
• Papelillo
• Trinitária
• Bugambilia (Mexico)
• Shpupu-kutshanat (Mexico)
• Sekku-pan (Myanmar)
• Napoleona (Honduras)
• Manto de Jesús ( El Salvador)
• Pomonce (El Savador)

Geographical Habitats

• Bahia
• Minas Gerais
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo - Brazil

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• All year (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

Strong-growing scrambling or climbing vinelike evergreen spiny scandent shrub. Puberulent or glabrate leaves 100mm x 55mm. Terminal or axillary panicles or cymes of glabrous 60mm purple flower bracts, rarely whitish, white to cream flowers 25mm long with green tube. Climbs with curved thorns to 12mm long. Fruit an anthocarp to 15mm x 5mm with 5 angles.

Garden escapee

Living fences. Medicinal uses

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Iredell 1989
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• FOC
• FONZ
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• FB
• Mansfeld
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• USNH
• NAF
• FOG