Tropical Vines NEW Tropical bookstore is now open Tropical Vines Bougainvillea, spp. This vine grows well in both South and Central Florida as it enjoys cooler dryer weather than you might expect. Maximum color, however, is in winter and spring when this vine is the most colorful.
Older vines produce better than younger individuals.
The color is not produced by the flowers which are very small but are enclosed by highly colored bracts which most folks think of as the flowers. The hot pink color you see in the photo are the bracts. In the open landscape, you need to closely examine a bract to see the small white flowers at the centers. This vine is very thorny, sprawls wildly and produces many stems from the ground. It is very popular trained on a trellis as one would a climbing rose up north.