Bougainvillea
ബോഗൈൻവില്ല ഗ്ലാബ്രকাগজ ফুল
Bougainvillea glabra Choisy
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 3.3 m
- wide
- 2.4 m
Nyctaginaceae
Also called Lesser bougainvillea, Paper-flower, Paper Flower, Paperflower
Formerly Bougainvillea brachycarpa, Bougainvillea formosa, Bougainvillea rubicunda, Bougainvillea sanderiana
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing shrub or lianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. & S. BrazilKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; Wikipedia full
- Height
- 3.0 m to 3.5 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 10–20 ft; Wikipedia 3–3.5 m
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, yellow, purpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension cream, pink, purple, red, white, yellow; Wikipedia magenta, purple, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Bugambilia mamey, Veranera, Curazao
- root
- shpupukutshanat, ބޯގަންވިލާ
- Portuguese
- Primavera, Bougaiville, Três-marias
- French
- Bougainvillée glabre
- Hebrew
- בוגנוויליה
- Estonian
- sile bugenvillea
- Chinese
- 勒杜鵑, 小葉九重葛, 紫三角
- Czech
- bugenvilea lysá
- Russian
- Бугенвиллея голая
- Greek
- Βουκαμβίλια η λεία
- Chinese (China)
- 光叶子花, 三角梅
- German
- Kahle Bougainville, Kahle Drillingsblume
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Bougainvillea glabra (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.