The most popular among them would be the poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), which is displayed the most during Christmas time.
The plant emblem for NSW is the waratah, a big, bright, red flower.
Cerise
Mexico is the country where the poinsettia originally was grown. The flowering plant in question (Euphorbia pulcherrima) occupies a definite bio-geography which includes Guatemala and Mexico and which may extend to Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
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D.Epithets
D.Epithets
They are red giants.
It's a bright red and green leaved house plant, which is traditionally displayed at Christmas.
Holly
yes they did, its called hellrot red (bright red)
Indigenous peoples of Mexico first practiced the traditional association of poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with end-of-the-year religious rituals.Specifically, the Aztecs of ancient Mexico considered the plant's bright red December bloom a symbol of spiritual purity. The plant was native to southwestern Mexico and could not be grown at the higher altitude of the Aztec capital at Tenochtitlán. So the Aztecs protected the plant in its native range and introduced its cultivation into similar habitats elsewhere in Mexico.
The Poinsetta. Named after Joel Roberts Poinsett who brought it from Mexico to the USA