The Streets of Melbourne · @NessaUndreza
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A gorgeous #bougainvillea, red in appearance is displayed along a suburban garage wall.
It almost resembles a climber / vine of sorts.
It is so appealing, especially showing off its colours so late in the flowering cycle.
Did you know?
The actual flower of the plant is small and generally white, but each cluster of three flowers is surrounded by three or six bracts.
These bracts with the bright colours, come in pink, magenta, purple, red, orange, white, or yellow (I’ve never seen yellow).
#BougainvilleaGlabra is sometimes called "paper flower" because its bracts are thin and papery.
🙏♥️
📸 - #Elwood #Australia.
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The Streets of Melbourne · @NessaUndreza
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#BougainvilleaGlabra, right here, right now in #elsternwick #Australia.
A wonderful day brings out these reds - they just burst in the sun!
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The Streets of Melbourne · @NessaUndreza
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#BougainvilleaGlabra, or #paperflower are STILL flowering away throughout many suburbs here in #melbourne #Australia.
I’ve seen this one blooming for months now. It’s located on a busy road and gets it’s fair share of appreciative observers, I guarantee it!
The flowers on #bougainvillea are about 0.5 cm in diameter (the pink petal-like structures are not petals, but they’re known as ‘bracts’.
See pic 4, which is from another tree, featured previously, for a close up detail of the flower and bracts.
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