MyDailyFlower - Thursday Bougainvillea📷🌼🌹🌺

Good Afternoon Blurtters,
Today I would like to share with you five photos of beautiful Bougainvillea flowers. I found these beautiful bougainvillea flowers were planted in the median of the road which is located in Karang Joang Sub-district, North Balikpapan District, Balikpapan City, East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. Photos taken using the camera of Sony Smartphone.

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In my country Indonesia this flowering plant is also known as Bunga Kertas. Bougainvillea is a genus of thorny ornamental vines, bushes, and trees belonging to the four o' clock family, Nyctaginaceae. It is native to eastern South America, found from Brazil, west to Peru, and south to southern Argentina. Different authors accept from 4 to 22 species in the genus. The inflorescence consists of large colourful sepal-like bracts which surround three simple waxy flowers, gaining popularity for the plant as an ornamental.

The species grow 1 to 12 meters (3 to 39 ft) tall, scrambling over other plants with their spiky thorns. 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 called "paper flower" because its bracts are thin and papery. The fruit is a narrow five-lobed achene.

Various species of Bougainvillea are the official flowers of Guam (where it is known as the Puti Tai Nobiu); Lienchiang and Pingtung Counties in Taiwan; Ipoh, Malaysia; the cities of Tagbilaran, Philippines; Camarillo, California; Laguna Niguel, California; San Clemente, California; the cities of Shenzhen, Huizhou, Zhuhai, and Jiangmen in Guangdong Province, China; Xiamen, Fujian and Naha, Okinawa. Is also the national flower in Grenada.

Native to South America, bougainvillea carry several names in the different regions where they are present. Apart from Rioplatense Spanish santa-rita, Colombian Spanish veranera, Peruvian Spanish papelillo, it may be variously named primavera, tres-marias, sempre-lustrosa, santa-rita, ceboleiro, roseiro, roseta, riso, pataguinha, pau-de-roseira and flor-de-papel in Brazilian Portuguese. Nevertheless, buganvília in Portuguese and buganvilia in Spanish are the most common names accepted by people of the regions where these languages are spoken but it is an introduced plant.

How to Care for Bougainvillea

1. Watering

Bougainvillea needs a lot of water at the beginning of planting. Just like other plants that need nutrients from the water supply in the early days of growth. Newly grown roots require a large amount of water compared to roots that have grown large. So when it grows up, this paper flower will go through a phase where it does not need water. This phase is called the 'dry phase'.

This dry phase occurs when bougainvillea has started to show its buds ready for flowering. At that time, reduce the amount of water you give it, because if you give it too much water, the flowers will have a hard time opening. However, this dry phase does not last long. Only about 3-4 days until the flowers fully bloom. When it blooms, it can be watered again.

2. Sunlight

Bougainvillea is a flower plant that requires a lot of sunlight intake. That is about 70% sunlight. Even when the sun is hot though. Therefore, store your bougainvillea flowers in open places that can be exposed to direct sunlight.
Bougainvillea loves direct sunlight. It will thrive if you keep it in an open area.
Bougainvillea loves direct sunlight. It will thrive if placed in an open area.

3. Fertilization

For fertilization, bougainvillea flowers do not require special fertilization. Just like other plants in general. Give it periodically in reasonable amounts only. Although bougainvillea flowers can grow anywhere, the appearance of flowers that are given fertilizer is clearly different from those that are not given. Flowers that are given fertilizer will grow more dense and lush.

4. Pruning

Bougainvillea is lush. So this plant will grow and flower profusely. Therefore, pruning is needed so that the plants do not sprout everywhere. With regular pruning, the appearance of bougainvillea flowers can be adjusted to your liking. You can make bougainvillea bonsai or use it to decorate your fence. In addition to beautifying the appearance, pruning bougainvillea also serves to stimulate the growth of new beautiful flowers and keep it away from diseases or plant pests.