Family: Nyctaginaceae
Synonym: No synonym
Vernacularname:
Boganvilla, Kadalasupoovu-chedi
Habit: Shrub
Habitat: Grown
as garden plant
Distribution: Native of Brazil, widely grown in tropics and subtropics
Flowering and Fruiting: November-June
Key identification features: It
is an armed, scandent shrubs
having alternate leaves that are
ovate-acuminate. The flowers occur in axillary cymes or panicles, arranged
in triads. Each flower is
subtended by an ovate-acute, petaloid
bract. The staminal filaments
are usually unequal and inflexed in bud. The fruit is indehiscent and enclosed within the hardened perianth tube.
Use: Used as ornamental plant
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