Sunday, January 8, 2012

Are poinsettias a "Christmas" flower/plant or just holiday?

Neither one. Poinsettias real name is "flor de nochebuena" -Christmas eve flower- and come from Mexico. They were grown by aztecs six centuries ago. It's green the rest of the year. What we call flowers are not. They are leafs that change their color only in Winter. The name Poinsettias comes from the man's lastname who brought these plants into the U.S. almost a century ago.

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