Bougainvillea vines are one of the most common types of bougainvillea plants. Learn more about the bougainvillea vine with tips from a gardener in this free plant care video.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Video: Bougainvillea Plant Care : How to Care for Bougainvilleas
Bougainvilleas are tropical plants that love sunlight. Learn more about how to care for bougainvilleas with tips from a gardener in this free plant care video.
Video: Bougainvillea Plant Care : Protecting Bougainvilleas in Winter
Bougainvilleas need to be protected in the winter if the temperature drops below freezing. Learn how to protect bougainvillea plants with tips from a gardener in this free plant care video.
Bouganvillea Bracts
The bougainvillea may flower throughout the year and the flowers come in a medley of colors. The brightly colored papery flowers are actually bracts sheathing the slender stem. Bougainvillea's bracts come in a wide array of colors including every possible shade of red, pink, and purple, with newer varieties in yellow, orange, and white. The true flowers are insignificant white, trumpet shaped little things located in the center of the spectacular papery bracts. In Bougainvillea each cluster of three flowers is surrounded by three or six more colorful bracts.In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis, or cone scale. Bracts are often (but not always) different from foliage leaves, being smaller or of a different color or texture.
Some bracts are brightly colored and serve the function of attracting pollinators, either in concert with or instead of the perianth. An excellent example of this latter type of bract occurs in the Poinsettia plant (Euphorbia pulcherrima), which has small green flowers, surrounded by large scarlet bracts.
Some bracts are brightly colored and serve the function of attracting pollinators, either in concert with or instead of the perianth. An excellent example of this latter type of bract occurs in the Poinsettia plant (Euphorbia pulcherrima), which has small green flowers, surrounded by large scarlet bracts.
Video: Growing Flower Gardens : How to Grow Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea is a plant that should grow from a nice, sunny spot through reflected sun. Grow bougainvillea in shaded areas in the summer with tips from an experienced gardener in this free video on planting flowers and gardening.
Plant of the Day - Bougainvillea
BougainvilleaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nyctaginaceae
Genus: Bougainvillea
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nyctaginaceae
Genus: Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea is a genus of flowering plants native to South America from Brazil west to Peru and south to southern Argentina (Chubut Province). Different authors accept between four and 18 species in the genus. The plant was discovered in Brazil in 1768, by Philibert Commerçon, French Botanist accompanying French Navy admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville during his voyage of circumnavigation.
They are thorny, woody, vines growing anywhere from 1-12 meters tall, scrambling over other plants with their hooked 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 colors 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.
Bougainvillea are relatively pest-free plants, but may suffer from worms and aphids. The larvae of some Lepidoptera species also use them as food plants, for example the Giant Leopard Moth.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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