Pointsettias are usually red, but white ones are also available.
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Thank you for watering my poinsettias.
No, poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) are not considered to bring bad luck.Specifically, poinsettias are considered lucky plants, in that they are sources of the following:1. Bright, cheery color to the end-of-the-year landscape in December;2. Fever treatment through the processing of its milky sap;3. Rich purplish colored dyes through the processing of its modified leaves (bracts).
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Red Poinsettias bloom in the cool, dark times of the year, when nights are long. Poinsettias require darkness and dryness to grow, as sunlight and excess water can damage the plants.
Poinsettias are called flores de nochebuena because they are flowers that are beautiful at night.
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Twelve (12) hours 20 minutes of uninterrupted darkness for five (5) days straight is the amount of darkness that poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) needs in order to bloom.Specifically, that is the requirement that must be met sometime between September 20 and October 20 in order for poinsettias to bloom in December. Such is the natural bloom cycle for poinsettias as long as other critical conditions such as air and soil moisture, light intensity, nutrition and temperature are met. But in fact, anytime that poinsettias undergo the above-mentioned short day/long night cycle they have the potential to see the flowering process initiated and their modified leaves change in color from green to red 65-85 days later.
Poinsettias were brought into the United States by Joel Robert Poinsett in 1825. He brought this plant from Mexico, where poinsettias are native plant or shrub that can grow to 15 feet in height .Poinsettias are usually associated with the Christmas season.
The tips of the stems are the locations of flowers on poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima).Specifically, the flowers are dainty, inconspicuous, and yellow when they bloom. They are surrounded by true and transitional bracts. Bracts are modified leaves. The true bracts immediately surround the flower. They are always bright red in color. The transitional bracts are located between the true bracts and the plant's regular leaves. The transitionals start out green in color. But they undergo changes that culminate in their surfaces turning bright red by the time that the flower blooms in December.The red of the true bracts and the reddening of the transitionals may be protective adaptations by which poinsettias protect their flowers.