Bugenvil White (Bougainvillea spectabilis)

The white Bugenvil has the scientific name Bougainvillea spectabilis, a popular ornamental plant, in the form of a difficult tree to grow upright. Its beauty comes from its brightly colored baskets of flowers and attracts attention as it grows with the lush. The flower is often considered a part of the flower, although the real flower is a small flower that is protected by the sheath. Flower spatha (spatha) is a protective leaf, which is often large, covering the entire compound before flowering. Flowers can be found in the generative structure of flowers or plants of aren-arenan (Arecaceae) and taro (Araceae). 

The flower is actually a special form of protective leaf (Bractea). The Bougainville plant is called a paper flower because of its thin flower shape and has paper-like features.

The English name of this flower is Bougainvillea taken from the name of Sir Louis Antoine de Bougainville, an Navy warrior or a French navigator and a European military commander. The famous types of paper flowers are Bougainvillea 'Easter Parade' and Bougenvillea 'Lady Mary Baring'.

Bugenvil White (Bougainvillea spectabilis)

This paper or bougainville flower has a colorful plant part. Therefore, the bougainville plant becomes an ornamental plant that is very popular because of its color beauty and easy way of caring for it. Bougeainville flower comes from South America. These plants are often grown in parks and residential areas. At the time of this flowering plant, this plant has a habit of threshing some leaves. This flower is very fascinating and a conversation of the population in our country because it was impressed with the shape and color of interest. This flower color consists of various colors, such as orange, red light, pink, pink, pale red, yellow, purple, white and various mix colors.

According to Gilman (1999), the classification of the white Bougainville plant (Bougainvillea spectabilis) is as follows:Bugenvil White (Bougainvillea spectabilis)Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)Subkingdom: Tracheobionta (Vascular Plant)Super Division: Spermatophyta (Produce seed)Division: Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)Class: Magnoliopsida (double-dikotil)Sub Class: HamamelidaeOrder: CaryophyllalesFamily: NyctaginaceaeGenus: BougainvilleaSpecies: Bougainvillea spectabilis

The treatment of Bougainville plants is very easy and does not require a long time, because this plant species is very suitable to be grown in tropical climates and equatorial regions like in our country and can grow up to 10 meters in height.

Although this plant is small and funnel-shaped, it has many benefits. Bougainville leaves, flowers, roots, and bark shells contain saponins, polyphenols, betanidins, isobetarudin, 6-C beta-sophoroside and 6-rhamnosyl sophoroside. Bougainville flowers can be used for whitish (lekore), irregular menstruation, body freshener, adstringensia and blood circulation. While the stem is used to treat hepatitis.

DESCRIPTION

Bougenville plants include upright shrubs, plant height approximately 2-4 meters. Rooting system is riding. With branch roots widening in all directions with a depth of 40 cm - 80 cm. Roots located near the surface of the soil sometimes grow or the roots will be new plants. Bougenville is a clump that climbs and hangs, the stem has a round wooded branch, is broad and has a diameter of 5 mm - 8 mm, is brown and compound. Bougainville flowers include compound interest, umbrella 3 - 15 flowers.

Flower color is diverse, there are yellow, red, pink, purple, white and so on. Flower petals are tubular 2-4 mm. flower canopy 5-8, shaped nails, smooth-haired. The same pair of leaves is connected by a long, flat-braided, pinned or bony-boned three to five. Bougenville transverse bulge.

Leaf pinnate leaves, leaf strands lengthwise to have ripe black buni fruit, 1 cm long, bebiji two or because the failure of one seed and has no indentation. White flowers are actually leaf strands that have been modified. The original flower or genuine flower-shaped tube extends up to 5 cm, is white, and appears on the sidelines or in the middle of the leaf strand that has undergone modification. If exposed to direct sunlight, will flowering bushy. Propagation by cuttings or grafts.

Bougainville flower has the following characteristics, among others: stem: small, branched, crooked twisted. Leaves: spread to face, stemmed, oval, elliptic or elongated, often tapered edge flat, 4-10 times 2-6 cm. Flowers: arranged in a child's breast

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