Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-663.35.10
Bougainvillea glabra
English: Paper Flower.
Region: America, eastern and central Brazil.
Habitat: forest and scrubland; Atlantic rainforest and semideciduous forests; dense primary forest; more open, secondary growth; favouring moister soils and usually at elevations above 500 to 1500 metres; adapted to areas lacking a distinct dry season and flowers more or less continuously in perpetually humid conditions, intolerant of frost; prefers sunny position; best in a moist, fertile soil.
Content: pinitol, betacyanine, flavonoids, tannins, alkaloids
Use: ornamental, hedge, ground cover, living fences, mark out land boundaries; medicinal; restoring native woodland.
Source: Sense provings; Star essence.
Botany
Spiny, evergreen shrub to tree, or a climbing shrub, producing stems up to 7 metres or more long; very dense ellipsoid crown; support on other plants by means of thorns carried in the leaf axils.
Flowers: tiny, surrounded by 3 showy bracts; climbers.