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Blasts of cold air during the trip home can stress poinsettias causing them to drop leaves. Shield your plant from drafts by covering it with a paper or plastic plant sleeve.
The poinsettia (/ p ɔɪ n ˈ s ɛ t (i) ə /; [1] [2] [3] Euphorbia pulcherrima) is a commercially important flowering plant species of the diverse spurge family Euphorbiaceae. Indigenous to Mexico and Central America, the poinsettia was first described by Europeans in 1834.
Euphorbia tithymaloides has a large number of household names used by gardeners and the public. Among them are redbird flower, [7] devil's-backbone, [8] redbird cactus, Jewbush, buck-thorn, cimora misha, Christmas candle, fiddle flower, ipecacuahana, Jacob's ladder, Japanese poinsettia, Jew's slipper, milk-hedge, myrtle-leaved spurge, Padus-leaved clipper plant, red slipper spurge, slipper ...
This taxon was first published at genus rank under the name Poinsettia by Robert Graham in 1836. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was demoted to a section of Euphorbia as E. sect. Poinsettia by Henri Ernest Baillon in 1858, but promoted to subgenus rank by Homer Doliver House in 1924.
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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 ...
Euphorbia cyathophora, known by various names including painted spurge, dwarf poinsettia, [2] fire-on-the-mountain, paintedleaf, [2] and wild poinsettia. [3] Native to subtropical and tropical North and South America , it is widely naturalized elsewhere. [ 2 ]
Delonix regia is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae native to Madagascar.It is noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of orange-red flowers over summer.