Bougainvillea – South Africa, 2014 Many of you will probably have been able to correctly identify this exuberantly coloured flower as a bougainvillea, a prolific and thorny vine native to South America. But how many of you know where the name came from? The first European to describe these plants was Philibert Commerçon, a botanist […]
Bougainvillea – South Africa, 2014 Many of you will probably have been able to correctly identify this exuberantly coloured flower as a bougainvillea, a prolific and thorny vine native to South America. But how many of you know where the name came from? The first European to describe these plants was Philibert Commerçon, a botanist […]
