A neighbor has shown me that there exists two kinds of Bougainvillea, one
which vines and is more commonly found and the other which bushes, and is
less well known.

They differ in leaf size, internodes and growth.The busher has small
leaves,extremely close internodes, and grows more slowly. The viner has
large leaves, long internodes and and rapid growth.I recently introduced the
bushing variety to my garden here in mid Florida's east coast

I have not seen any references to this distinction in the literature. Does
anyone have any literature or any more info on the distinction bwtwwen
these?

Sandy