Spoiler The bougainvillea is a woody, vining plant that was discovered in Brazil by the the naturalist accompanying French Admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville. In 1766 Bougainville received from Louis XV permission to circumnavigate the globe. He would become the 14th navigator in western history, and the first Frenchman, to sail around the world, and the completion of his mission would bolster the prestige of France following its defeats during the Seven Years' War. This was the first expedition circumnavigating the globe with professional naturalists and geographers aboard. Bougainville left Nantes on 15 November 1766 with two ships: La Boudeuse (captain : Nicolas Pierre Duclos-Guyot ) and the Étoile (commanded by François Chenard de la Giraudais). This was a large expedition with a crew of 214 aboard La Boudeuse and 116 aboard the Étoile. On board was the botanist Philibert Commerçon, who named the flower Bougainvillea, and his valet, later unmasked by the ship's surgeon as Jeanne Baré, possibly Commerçon's mistress; she would become the first woman known to circumnavigate the globe. Other notable people on this expedition were Count Jean-François de Galaup de la Pérouse (member of the crew), the astronomer Pierre-Antoine Veron, the surgeon of La Boudeuse Dr. Louis-Claude Laporte, the surgeon of the Étoile Dr. François Vives, the engineer and cartographer abourd the Étoile Charles Routier de Romainville, the writer and historian Louis-Antoine Starot de Saint-Germain.[2]
Spoiler Bougainvillea This plant was discovered in Brazil in 1768. It was named after the French admiral who discovered it. It can grow to up to 40 feet high and develops a woody stem which is covered with strong thorns. It is a vine that likes to climb, but it has been successful grown in pots. The flower of the plant is technically white but clusters of these white flowers are surrounded by the colored bracts that make the plant beautiful to look at. Bougainvillea can develop a variety of bright colors including purple, magenta, pink, orange, red and yellow. Bougainvillea flower all year round in hot climates, and like bright sunlight.
Spoiler Captain Crunch had a cereal named after him but he was only a captain.....and while cereal comes from a plant....... Oh! Rear Admiral Raphae Semmens of the Confederate Navy has an azalea named after him.....nice color for an azalea.....but Delly is probably not thinking of him....too obscure and it is the wrong timeframe..... Then here was the Frenchman in Brazil....the one with the long name.....he use to be a mouseketeer......no thats's not right....oh a musketeer......Louis de Bougainville, had an interesting military career. He explored Brazil while traveling around the world after his exploits in the French Military and his botanist, Philibert Commercon, named the plant after him, Bougainvillea spectabilis in 1768. It has thorns. Ouch! Jerry
