Who grows Bougainvillea glabra wholesale in Australia?

6 wholesale growers list Bougainvillea glabra on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. The growers are named on this page.

What pot sizes does Bougainvillea glabra come in?

Growers on HortOS list Bougainvillea glabra in Tube, 140mm, 200mm, 300mm, 400mm and S.

How do I order Bougainvillea glabra from these growers?

HortOS is for the trade. Add the lines you want to a list and send it: each grower gets their part of the order by email, confirms what they have and quotes freight, and nothing is bought until you approve it. Listing, searching and ordering are free.

Is the colourful part of a bougainvillea the flower?

No. The colour is in the bracts, three papery, petal-like parts, pinkish red to purple or magenta in this species. The true flowers are small, white to yellowish and tubular, carried in threes inside the bracts, by PlantNET and HortFlora.

How is Bougainvillea glabra told from B. spectabilis?

NC State says B. glabra has a distinctly five-angled floral tube and short bracts, while B. spectabilis has a rounded tube and longer bracts. HortFlora adds that the many hybrids mix the characters, which makes naming difficult.

Bougainvillea glabra

Bougainvillea

Every Bougainvillea glabra on HortOS in one place: the plain species and 8 varieties. Pick a size to see it across all of them.

6 growers · 6 sizes · from $1.61 ex GST

Bougainvillea glabra, paper flower or lesser bougainvillea, is a vigorous, thorny rambling shrub or woody climber from Brazil. The colour comes from papery bracts, pinkish red to purple or magenta in the species, three of them around a cluster of three small white tubular flowers. NC State gives it about 3 to 6 m high, the RHS 4 to 8 m. HortFlora says the hybrid origin of many bougainvillea cultivars is uncertain or unknown.

Illustration of bougainvillea (Bougainvillea glabra): a shoot tip with elliptic green leaves, a curved thorn in a leaf axil, and three papery magenta bracts, each carrying one slender white tubular flower — Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea glabra), a shoot tip with its bracts and flowers

Type: Evergreen climber
Height: 3 m to 8 m
Spread: 1.8 m to 4 m
Growth: Fast
Flowers: Magenta, spring to summer; almost continuous where there is no dry season, by HortFlora
Sun: Full sun to part shade; full sun encourages flowering (NC State)
Frost: Frost sensitive
In Australia: Naturalised

Size	Grower	Location	PricePrice ex GST
Tube	Prince Propagation Magenta GloryTube	Currumbin Valley, QLD	$1.61
Tube	Prince Propagation Scarlet GloryTube	Currumbin Valley, QLD	$1.61
Tube	Prince Propagation Purple CascadeTube	Currumbin Valley, QLD	$1.61
140mm	GrowAbility Nursery Assorted140mm	Mildura, VIC	$15.00
140mm	Project Plants Trade Centre Assorted140mm	Shaw, QLD	Price on application. Sign in to ask the grower.
200mm	Poyntons Nursery White Cascade200mm	Aberfeldie, VIC	$39.99
300mm	Honeysuckle Park Scarlet Glory300mm	Dural, NSW	$125.00
300mm	Honeysuckle Park White Cascade300mm	Dural, NSW	$125.00
300mm	Honeysuckle Park Scarlet O Hara300mm	Dural, NSW	$125.00
300mm	Honeysuckle Park Crimson Jewel300mm	Dural, NSW	$125.00
400mm	Honeysuckle Park White Cascade400mm	Dural, NSW	$350.00
400mm	Honeysuckle Park Scarlet O Hara400mm	Dural, NSW	$350.00
400mm	Honeysuckle Park Crimson Jewel400mm	Dural, NSW	$350.00
S	Lakeside Nursery Mrs ButtS	Stratham, WA	Price on application. Sign in to ask the grower.

Growing bougainvillea

NC State, an American reference, suits it to a hot, dry climate in full sun or part shade, in well-drained, acid soil, watered deeply and then left to dry out, and calls it frost sensitive. The RHS, writing for Britain, rates it H1C and grows it under glass. No Australian reference read gives a frost rating or a climate zone. HortFlora says bougainvilleas are widely grown in the tropics and their cultivars increasingly in the warmer districts of south-eastern Australia, and that B. glabra and its hybrids flower almost all the time where there is no dry season. NC State says it flowers on new growth and should be pruned straight after flowering, that it needs tying in or a fence, wall or pergola to climb, and that alkaline soil can cause chlorosis.

What to check before you buy

HortFlora names three hybrid groups from the three main cultivated species, two of them with B. glabra as a parent: B. x buttiana (B. glabra x B. peruviana) and B. x spectoglabra (B. spectabilis x B. glabra). It says the hybrid origin of many cultivars is uncertain or unknown, so a cultivar listed under glabra may be a hybrid; this record covers the species only. The Australian Plant Census gives it as naturalised in Queensland and doubtfully naturalised on Lord Howe Island, and PlantNET calls it an occasional garden escape. The table above shows the sizes growers list.

Cautions

The stems carry thorns: curved thorns 5 to 15 mm long in the leaf axils, by PlantNET, and NC State lists thorns among its problems.

Used forpots and courtyards hedging and screening

Prices are set by each grower and shown ex GST. Availability is confirmed by the grower at order.

Common questions

Who grows Bougainvillea glabra wholesale in Australia?: 6 wholesale growers list Bougainvillea glabra on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. The growers are named on this page.
What pot sizes does Bougainvillea glabra come in?: Growers on HortOS list Bougainvillea glabra in Tube, 140mm, 200mm, 300mm, 400mm and S.
How do I order Bougainvillea glabra from these growers?: HortOS is for the trade. Add the lines you want to a list and send it: each grower gets their part of the order by email, confirms what they have and quotes freight, and nothing is bought until you approve it. Listing, searching and ordering are free.
Is the colourful part of a bougainvillea the flower?: No. The colour is in the bracts, three papery, petal-like parts, pinkish red to purple or magenta in this species. The true flowers are small, white to yellowish and tubular, carried in threes inside the bracts, by PlantNET and HortFlora.
Is Bougainvillea glabra a weed in Australia?: The Australian Plant Census lists it as naturalised in Queensland and doubtfully naturalised on Lord Howe Island, and PlantNET says it is occasionally seen as a garden escape.
How is Bougainvillea glabra told from B. spectabilis?: NC State says B. glabra has a distinctly five-angled floral tube and short bracts, while B. spectabilis has a rounded tube and longer bracts. HortFlora adds that the many hybrids mix the characters, which makes naming difficult.

Sources

GBIF species match API (Bougainvillea glabra)
Australian Plant Census (APC), Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria: Bougainvillea glabra
Atlas of Living Australia (Bougainvillea glabra, paper flower)
PlantNET, the New South Wales flora online (Royal Botanic Garden Sydney): Bougainvillea glabra
HortFlora, the Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia (Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria): Bougainvillea glabra and the genus Bougainvillea
North Carolina State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox: Bougainvillea glabra and the genus Bougainvillea
Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), plant profiles: Bougainvillea glabra

The growers, sizes and prices above are live and change as lists arrive. Cite this page: HortOS, Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea glabra), https://au.hortosapp.com/plants/bougainvillea-glabra.

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