Bougainvillea × buttiana explained

Bougainvillea × buttiana is a flowering plant, a garden hybrid of Bougainvillea glabra and Bougainvillea peruviana.[1]

Growing to 5m (16feet) tall by 1.5m (04.9feet) broad, It is an evergreen vine, with thorny stems and tiny trumpet shaped white flowers, usually appearing in clusters surrounded by three showy bright magenta-rose papery bracts. The leaves are ovate and dark green.

This plant can be grown in a warm temperate or subtropical environment where the temperature does not fall below freezing (0C), against a south-facing wall in full sun. Numerous cultivars have been developed, of which the following have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture . 2014-05-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090120104812/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?1617# . 2009-01-20 . dead .
  2. Web site: RHS Plantfinder - Bougainvillea × buttiana 'Miss Manila'. 12 January 2018.
  3. Web site: RHS Plantfinder - Bougainvillea × buttiana Mrs Butt. 12 January 2018.
  4. Web site: RHS Plantfinder - Bougainvillea × buttiana 'Poulton's Special'. 12 January 2018.

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