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We need to know that Bougenville or Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea) flowers are one of the ornamental flower plants belonging to the Nyctaginaceae family. This flower plant comes from South America. This flower plant has a small tree shape and is difficult to grow upright. Spatha or a flowery flower on this flower plant has a size that is large enough to grow to cover all parts of the compound before it blooms. The spata is thin and has features such as paper, the color of the flowers is white, pink, yellow, and others. These flower stems have sharp, branching spines, but they are not as sharp as cactus spines.
In the country of Indonesia Bougenville flowers or commonly known as paper flowers is one of the many ornamental plants cultivated and maintained by Indonesian women. The main reason why this flower is called a paper flower is because the characteristics of the flower are very similar to paper, light, thin and fleeting almost resemble certain paper.
As time progresses, these flowers also spread more and more throughout the world. Until many people also call it a variety of accents and languages. For example in the country of Indonesia named "paper flowers, in a Spanish country named" Bugambilia "and of course in other regions also give the name of another, but in essence the flower is the same.
If this flower is left alone or grows naturally like in Indonesia, this plant can grow to a height of 10 meters. The stem of this plant has a rather hard structure, branches and has sharp thorns. In addition, this plant also has tight tendrils, broad leaves and form a tapered longitude that can make the main vegetation in its growing location. Therefore this flower is the target of some ornamental plants lovers to be used as bonsai plants that we often see around us, but in Japan this flower is made in such a way as to produce different shapes and colors.