Bougainvillea is either an ornamental vine, bush, or even small tree, depending on its specie and on how it was grown. It is native to eastern South America (Brazil, Peru, Argentina) and can now be found either in tropical climates than in some hot climates of Europe or North America. The inflorescence is a made of colorful thin sepals looking like paper, giving its vietnamese name Hoa giay, paper-flower.
Bougainvillea
It can be a small shrub of 60cm, as well as 12 metres climber, scrambling over other plants with its spiky thorns. In tropical countries like Vietnam, it is mostly evergreen all the year, with small green leaves. The inflorescence, visible all the year in tropical countries, is made of a white heart and a few colorful bracts, pink, magenta, purple, red, orange, white, or yellow. Some species have also been created to wear multiple colors of flowers.