bougainvillea's

Updated: May 18, 2025

There was never such luxuriant vegetation, never such a riot of color and richness of growth as on every side. The wealth of the bougainvillea's masses of lustrous magenta was matched by the dazzling flamboyant, trees forty feet high, and their foliage a hundred in circumference, a sheen of crimson.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.