Available for sale as Greeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints and Framed Prints on Redbubble <embed wmode="transparent" src="http://www.zazzle.com/utl/getpanel?zp=117336488627909892" flashvars="feedId=117336488627909892" width="300" height="200" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><embed wmode="transparent" src="http://www.zazzle.com/utl/getpanel?zp=117373135502126298" flashvars="feedId=117373135502126298" width="300" height="200" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /> Bougainvillea is a genus of flowering plants native to South America from Brazil west to Peru and south to southern Argentina.Different authors accept between four and 18 species in the genus. The plant was discovered in Brazil in 1768, by Philibert Commerçon, French Botanist accompanying French Navy admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville during his voyage of circumnavigation. Various species of Bougainvillea are the official flowers of the island of Grenada, the island of Guam, of Lienchiang and Pingtung Counties in Taiwan, Ipoh, Malaysia and of the cities of Tagbilaran, Philippines; Camarillo, California; Laguna Niguel, California; San Clemente, California; and Naha, Okinawa