Plant & Flower Names · Entry
Bougainvillea
Named after a person (French navigator)
“named for the explorer whose expedition first documented it”
Where it comes from
named after Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Fun Fact
The plant was documented by a botanist traveling on Louis Antoine de Bougainville's circumnavigation expedition in the 1760s, and it was named in his honor rather than the botanist's own.