Great bougainvillea
বাগানবিলাস
Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 8.4 m
- wide
- 8.5 m
Nyctaginaceae
Also called Beautiful bougainvillea, Brazil bougainvillea
Formerly Bougainvillea brasiliensis, Bougainvillea speciosa, Bougainvillea virescens, Josepha augusta, and 1 more
When it flowers
Flowers June to February 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
- 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, one source
- Height
- 4.6 m to 12 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 12 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, orange, red, pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -3.9 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Australian Umbrella TreeFlowers March to May, when this does not
Bitter MelonFlowers March to May, when this does not
Busy LizzieFlowers March to May, when this does not
ColeusFlowers March to May, when this does not
Expanded LobsterclawFlowers March to May, when this does not
Fire-star orchidFlowers March to May, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 簕杜鵑, 葉子花, 毛寶巾
- Portuguese
- Buganvília-do-brasil, Roseira-do-mato, Tapirica
- Spanish
- Buganvilia brasileña, Trinitaria
- Estonian
- kaunis bugenvillea
- Finnish
- isoihmeköynnös
- Czech
- bugenvilea nádherná
- Lithuanian
- Puošnioji bugenvilija
- Chinese (China)
- 叶子花, 九重葛, 千日红
- Japanese
- イカダカズラ
- Greek
- Άγρια Βουκαμβίλια
- Russian
- Бугенвиллия прекрасная
- Danish
- håret trillingranke
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
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Bougainvillea spectabilis (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.