Mexico stories - Whose language?

I sure do like bougainvilleas, those woody-vined, flowering plants that love warm, sandy locales. Just don´t ask me to pronounce them.

I'm trying to do well with my spanish here in Mexico; part of that is pronouncing double "l" as "y" (tortillas, quesadillas), so "bougainvillea" must be pronounced: boo-gan-vee-YA

Well, no.

I asked my amigo how to pronounce it. He said: boo-gam-vee-LEE-a

Spell that! "b-u-g-a-m-b-i-l-i-a"

So, I looked it up (big shocker). It turns out that a french explorer, Admiral Louis de Bougainvillea, "discovered" the plant in South America and named it after himself (another big shocker), so the latin genus is "Bougainvillea".

In Mexico, the french spelling isn´t pronounced in spanish...the spanish spelling was changed to match the french pronunciation.

So...how do you pronounce - in english - a South American plant whose latin name is a french word that has been translated phonetically back into spanish?

P-R-E-T-T-Y-F-L-O-W-E-R