Bougainvillea
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Description
Trunks are many and stems are often clumping. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, entire. Blades are 5-10 cm long, with much variation in shape: e.g. ovate to broadly elliptic, sharp-pointed, and with undulate margins. Flowers are in groups of 1-3, small, tubular, white or yellow, with 5-6 perianth lobes. Each flower is subtended by a persistent, colorful leaf-like bract. The fruit is an elongated achene, rather inconspicuous, up to about 1 cm long, and has a dry, hard fruit cover.
Growing form
Evergreen, often thorny vines, shrubs, or small trees, with a spreading, round habit, and a height and spread of up to 6 m.
Observations in Finland
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A total of observations in Finland ?
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Observations
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Species card
Checklist
FinBIF master checklist
Scientific name
Bougainvillea
Author
Comm. ex Juss.
Vernacular names
- ihmeköynnökset (Finnish)
Identifier
http://tun.fi/MX.5009072
Taxon rank
genus
DNA barcode sequences
Informal groups
- Vascular plants
Taxon information in machine-readable form
Subordinate taxa