They were first found there in 1768 by Philibert Commerçon, a French explorer and naturalist. Commerçon named the flowers after his good friend Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, the French admiral with whom Commerçon sailed around the world from 1766 to 1769.
Very interesting 🤨
Bougainvillea is a tropical vining shrub that comes in a wide array of bright and fanciful colors. The "flowers" are actually modified leaves, called bracts, that are long-lasting and bright. The colorful bracts outshine the plant's true (but tiny) flower.
My garden is bursting with colour, and desperate for it big trim! Funny thing - the more you truly the faster it flowers and grows… and grows..
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Beautiful capture and a great narrative. I love the little white flowers in the centres. I only have a white one and my garden is pretty colourless ;-)
