30 shades of pink

pink. peach. coral. melon. salmon. mango. apricot. sorbet. blush. rose. i am quite sure i could come up with 20 more names for the various shades of pink in this photo. i brought these bougainvillea bracts home from palm springs in a starbucks cup so they wouldn’t get crushed. did you know that on bougainvillea the actual flower of the plant is small and generally white, but each cluster of three flowers is surrounded by three or six bracts with the bright colors associated with the plant. so these are bracts. not leaves. and not flowers. bracts. thank you for tuning into your morning dose of little-known-facts with mary jo.

dried bougainvillea bracts