Beautiful and breath taking, Bougainvilia

I've not done any official research to know for sure, but I'll venture to say that the bougainvilia, named for a French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville, is the most popular and decorative plant in Agadir. As you can see from these pictures (I hope there aren't too many!!), the bougainvilia is varied in color: from red-violet tones to purples, from pinks and oranges to salmon, and even white. They make solid, massive hedges which line walls and avenues, or very quietly creep and crawl up trees, through fences and over terraces.

They're just simply beautiful!!

Notice the dainty white flower pistils in the center!

Hmmm, love this one!!

The orange ones are rare, and less resistant, but they do exist!

Pure pleasure

A bridal bouquet.

The following couple pictures of this extaordinary wall of solid purple and red- violet bougainvilia were taken in the yard of a dear friend...I must have taken a couple dozen pictures of it..it is just magnificent!!

I love to see them like this in a "mescloum" , a tantalizing mixture.

Isn't it peaceful!! It's during the lunch hour and no one was in the street!

This is a close up of a mass of bougainvilia who've attacked a very tall tree!

Here if you look closely you can see this hedge is made up of red hibiscus growing above the bougainvilia flowers.

Here you can get an idea of how high they climb