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Poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) are iconic holiday plants known for their beautiful red leaves and small yellow flowers. While poinsettias are often purchased for a single season and discarded ...
It was known by the common name "poinsettia" as early as 1836, [8] derived from Joel Roberts Poinsett, a botanist and the first US Minister to Mexico. [9] Possibly as early as 1826, Poinsett began sending poinsettias from Mexico back to his greenhouses in South Carolina. [10] Prior to poinsettia, it was known as "Mexican flame flower" or ...
Christmas flowers are the popular flowers used during the festive season of Christmas. [1] In many nations, seasonal flowers and plants such as Poinsettia , Christmas cactus , holly , Christmas rose , ivy and mistletoe form a major part of traditional Christmas decoration .
Warszewiczia coccinea (or chaconia, wild poinsettia and pride of Trinidad and Tobago) is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is the national flower of Trinidad and Tobago . This small, evergreen ornamental tree is remarkable for its inflorescence with bright red bracts and inconspicuous yellow petals .
Poinsettia is a subgenus deriving from the genus Euphorbia, and is endemic to North America. It contains around 24 species , most famously E. pulcherrima , the poinsettia which grows wild in the mountains on the Pacific slope of Mexico .
Euphorbia punicea is a species of euphorb commonly known as Jamaican poinsettia. It was first described by Olof Peter Swartz in his Nova genera et species plantarum seu prodromus. [2] It grows as a bush or tree three to five meters (10–16 ft) tall, and sometimes much taller. [3] The false flower is in fact a cyathium surrounded by large ...
Examples of this type of bract include those of Euphorbia pulcherrima (poinsettia) and Bougainvillea: both of these have large colourful bracts surrounding much smaller, less colourful flowers. [ 3 ] In grasses , each floret (flower) is enclosed in a pair of papery bracts, called the lemma (lower bract) and palea (upper bract), while each ...
Bract, flower and leaf blight: Phytophthora drechsleri: Bract spot: Corynespora cassiicola: Crown and stem rot: Fusarium oxysporum: Crown and stem rot: Nectria haematococca (Fusarium solani anamorph) Cutting rot: Cylindrocladium scoparium: Dieback: Lasiodiplodia theobromae = Botryosphaeria theobromae: Gray mold: Botryotinia ricini: Gray mold