#euphorbia pulcherrima

[boschintegral-photo]

Christmas Decoration Barcelona, Spain

#photographers on tumblr #nature #flowers #christmas #barcelona #spain #floral #flores #navidad #poinsettia #euphorbia #euphorbia pulcherrima #white #pink #winter #original photographers #original photography #vertical

[raccaryusui]

今日から師走ですね。

街ではこの花が多く見られるようになっています。

最近はクリスマスフラワーと呼ぶそうです。

赤と黄の「ポインセチア」の花。

ユーフォルビア属。

別名：ショウジョウボク。

学名：Euphorbia pulcherrima

撮影：iPhone14 Pro Max

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[colorsoutofearth]

Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) leaf

Photo by Albert Lleal

#Euphorbia pulcherrima #Euphorbia #poinsettia #leaf #leaf photography #plant photography #macro photography #pink and green #green and pink #green #pink #colorful leaf #nature #botanical

[banefolk]

Christmas Botanicals Series: Poinsettia

Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) is the next poisonous plant in the christmas botanicals series. It is not deadly poisonous, but contains latex which is toxic for humans and pets to ingest and results in nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea as well as eye and skin irritation if the latex is touched.

Cuetlaxōchitl is its Aztec name and nochebuena (christmas eve flower) is its common name in Mexico today. Cuetlaxōchitl is native from Mexico down to Guatemala and is a shrub that can grow to 13 feet high in the wild and blooms and changes colour from October to mid May. It was cultivated by the Aztecs as a dye, cosmetic, medicine, and as an ornamental shrub and documented in their lush botanical gardens in the mid 1400s CE.

It became associated with christmas in the 1500s when Franciscan monks from Spain started to use it to decorate churches at christmas and include it in nativity processions, naming it nochebuena and associating it with the star of Bethlehem. They likely adopted the practice from the indigenous people’s winter solstice celebrations for the Aztec sun god, Huītzilōpōchtli, which cuetlaxōchitl was closely associated with. The red leaves are said to represent the blood of fallen warriors and the plant represents resurrection.

The poinsettia got its name in the United States, and now much of the world, from Joel Robert Poinsett who was the US Minister to Mexico, Secretary of War, a politician, and an amateur botanist who fell in love with the poinsettia while in Mexico.

Poinsett was pretty awful: a plantation slave owner, racist nationalist, and arms dealer who was run out of Mexico for believing whites should rule Mexicans. Poinsett despised Native Americans. During his time as secretary of war, more indigenous people were displaced than any other time.

Poinsett made a tidy fortune introducing cuetlaxōchitl to the USA and naming it after himself. His American capitalist legacy was carried on by the Ecke family in California who had a monopoly on the 250 million dollar per year global poinsettia market from the early 1900s until they sold to German company Dümmen Orange in the mid 2010s.

References: Wikipedia, “Poinsettia: the Christmas flower and the racist history behind La Cuetlaxochitl” by ThreeSonorans, and “How a Scots horticulturalist helped the poinsettia to conquer the world” by Will Pavia (The Times).

#bane folk #poison path #poisonous plants #christmas plants #christmas botanicals #poinsettia #euphorbia pulcherrima #cuetlaxochitl

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

(sold) My leather work - Bible coverd

Welcome to order. Thanks!

🌲🌲🌲Merry Christmas for all friends xoxo🧧🧧🧧

Lan~*

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[helluvatimes]

Tapestry Of Colours

Poinsettia ‘Tapestry’ being introduced at Poinsettia Wishes 2023 in the conservatory. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

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[thebotanicalarcade]

n39_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Childs' fall catalog /. Floral Park, N.Y. :John Lewis Childs, Inc.,1923.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43569724

#Catalogs #Commercial catalogs #Flowers #John Lewis Childs (Firm) #Nurseries (Horticulture) #Seeds #U.S. Department of Agriculture #National Agricultural Library #bhl:page=43569724 #dc:identifier=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43569724 #bhlGardenStories #Poinsettia Santa #BHLinbloom #BHLIG #BHLDailySciART #flickr #euphorbia pulcherrima #Poinsettia #christmas Poinsettia #cottagecore #flowercore

[planthouseandgarden]

How to Care for Poinsettias? All You Need To Know

How to Care for Poinsettias? Welcome to our How-To Guide on caring for Poinsettia plants, the perfect addition to your home’s festive decor. As the holiday season approaches, Poinsettias bring vibrant colors and elegance. This guide will walk you through essential steps to ensure your Poinsettias not only flourish during the holidays but thrive year-round. For a visual walkthrough, check out the…

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[ascella-star]

Mira nada mas...

Noche buenas en mi jardín...

#plantitas #poinsettia #euphorbia pulcherrima #cuetlalxochitl #noche buena #plantblr #plants #ascella star

[christmaswinter]

The Christmas flower has the botanical name Euphorbia pulcherrima and is also commonly known as the Poinsettia. It is a species of spurge and belongs to the spurge (Euphorbiaceae) family. Locally, the Christmas flower is generally kept as an annual houseplant, although in its original form it is neither annual nor a pot plant. The Christmas flower is actually a persistent, evergreen bush from South America. The star shaped leaves of the plant captivated the botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow, who gave the plant its botanical designation Euphorbia pulcherrima gab – "the most beautiful of the spurges".

The Christmas flower has only gained notoriety as a houseplant here since the 1950s. Since then, its popularity as grown and grown and, despite its seasonality, the Christmas flower is now the most commonly sold houseplant in the world. A large selection of plants is available during the run up to the festive season in particular.

Caution: Christmas flowers are poisonous! As with other spurge species, the sap of the Poinsettia contains components which are mildly irritant to the skin. Consumption by small pets such as cats, rabbits, birds or hamsters may result in mild symptoms of poisoning. This should be taken into consideration when acquiring and placing the plant in a home and you should wear gloves when repotting and pruning the Christmas flower in order to prevent unnecessary contact with the sap. In general, skin contact is harmless, however the plant sap can induce allergic reactions in sensitive people.

#Poinsettia #Christmas flower #flowers #Christmas #winter #festive season #plants #Euphorbia pulcherrima #red

[boschintegral-photo]

Poinsettia Barcelona, Spain

#photographers on tumblr #nature #flowers #red #christmas #poinsettia #euphorbia #barcelona #spain #floral #flores #rojo #euphorbia pulcherrima #winter #vibrant #original photographers #original photography

[coffeenuts]

Weihnachtsstern by Michael Foerderer https://flic.kr/p/2o6bJ7F

#IFTTT #Flickr #euphorbia #pulcherrima #weihnachtsstern #pflanze #blüte #farbe #rot #winterzeit #wols

[o-craven-canto]

Euphorbia euphoria

Was sent this by a friend:

which is a reference to this:

namely, the fact that the wild mustard Brassica oleracea, once domesticated, produced a bewildering variety of vegetables by selecting each cultivar for a different part (cabbages from terminal buds, Brussels ssprouts from lateral buds, broccoli and cauliflower from flower buds, kale from leaves, and so on), all of them still being technically part of the same species, Brassica oleracea var. whatever.

Now, as far as I know, nobody has bred B. oleracea into a tree. But there is, not quite a single species, but a genus, that has gotten pretty close to that kind of internal morphological diversity:

Behold Euphorbia, the genus of spurges, counting over 2000 species (that nevertheless are often capable of interbreeding) scattered throughout all continents:

Euphorbia dendroides (Mediterranean)

The poinsettia, Euphorbia pulcherrima (Central America)

Euphorbia actinoclada (East Africa)|, one of the many cactus-like species (cacti proper are all American species except one, so if you see a cactus-like plant in an African or Asian deserts, odds are it's actually a kind of euphorbia)

Euphorbia trigona (Central Africa)

Euphorbia myrsinites (Southeast Europe)

Euphorbia obesa (South Africa)

Euphorbia ferox (South Africa)

Euphorbia ampliphylla (East Africa) (source)

Euphorbia aphylla (Canary Islands)

Euphorbia helioscopia (Eurasia and Africa)

And so on, and so on...

#biology #botany #plants #evolution #longpost

[abigaillynnarts]

Poinsettia - Euphorbia pulcherrima

This famous flower is indigenous to Mexico and Central America, and is well known for its red and green foliage and is widely used in Christmas floral displays.

Historically, pointsettas were cultivated by the Aztecs for use in traditional medicine. They also used the plant to produce red dye. Today it is known in Mexico and Guatemala as flor de nochebuena or nochebuena, meaning “Christmas Eve flower”.

The plant’s association with Christmas began in 16th-century Mexico, where legend tells of a girl who was too poor to provide a gift for the celebration of the nativity of Jesus and was inspired by an angel to gather weeds from the roadside and place them in front of the church altar. Hope you enjoy this little bit of history of this beloved Christmas flower!

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[beyourselfchulanmaria]

🎄░M░E░R░R░Y░░C░H░R░I░S░T░M░A░S░🎄 

I remember that I always go looking for things from nature useful and try don't buy any materials from shop, then made few craft works at the time… it's a long story of background why I became to live as the kind of life, but still fun and my professors and friends often looked forward to my new ideas, we talked & learned from each other.

And I found that as long as people who have lived in a fixed place for a long time, most of them become numb to the beautiful things around them or even lose their enthusiasm. They can hardly see the beauty of the Creator and the goodness of old things! and

I love Christmas poinsettia. If my father were still alive… Every year at this time on Christmas Eve, he would go to the market to buy some potted plants and decorate them at home. After he passed away, I would always think of him whenever I saw Christmas red in a bustling festive city. Although 15 years have passed, I still miss my dad very much. Almost didn't want to walk down the street. 🥲 🙏 🕊 …Lan~*

📌 ps. from what I listen songs just know how old I am. 🤣🤭😎 never mind, As old is gold ( it's comforted me much better.) lol 😚 💋

#my memories #merry christmas #merry xmas #chu lan #chu lan maria #fine craft artist #artist from taiwan #leather art #朱蘭皮藝 #台灣工藝人 #皮雕工藝 #crafts #聖誕紅 #poinsettia #一品紅 #euphorbia pulcherrima #studied art in usa at working for christmas #merry christmas darling 1970 #carpenters 木匠兄妹

[indigosfindings]

things that didn't make it into the poinsettia video

in interviews paul ecke iii keeps making baffling comparisons to other industries/corporations like intel and the auto industry ("All they have to do is make good cars that don't break down. Mine is a far more complicated business.")

this site claims that juan balme assigned the scientific name euphorbia pulcherrima in the 1600s (binomial species names were pioneered in the 1750s)

one article claims that the aztec winter festival that used poinsettias is "fiesta de la veintena" ("festival of the 20th"????) (again one must assume that this is. not the precolonial name). this (shockingly) does not seem to be the name of an actual event. it seems like they just googled "aztec festival" and found something about the festivals on the 20th (i.e. last) days of the aztec months (cf. "la fiesta de la veintena de quecholli"--ie the festival of the 20th of quecholli) and decided to just... roll with it and assume nobody would fact-check or want further details??

wikipedia's citation for the claim about the legend of pepita/maria (reference 29 on the poinsettia page at the time of writing) is this article, which. literally does not mention the legend at all

i went through juan balme giraud's bibliography (incidentally a couple articles in that list seem to be nonextant save for being cited in other publications) and there sure is no mention of poinsettias, but he did write about how hawthorn tea makes you piss hard

im obsessed with this vox video on the history of poinsettias where they parrot the claim that franciscan friars grew poinsettias for nativity scenes and illlustrate this by. showing a nativity painting and having poinsettias manifest around it. because there are no actual depictions of the friars doing this. because it isnt true

according to wikipedia "Nothing is known about pollination in wild poinsettias" (wiki's source) which makes the "grew through a crack in willdenow's greenhouse" thing even funnier

quote from paul ecke iii re declining sales of poinsettias: "I know people’s 401(k)s are 201(k)s now. But if I can go buy a poinsettia for $10 or $20 and it makes me feel good at Christmas -- that’s worth it." he's so ANNOYING

multiple sources (incl. the university of illinois poinsettia history page) call william prescott a "horticulturist" or "botanist". He Wasn't One,

multiple articles say that poinsettias are the REASON red and green are the christmas colours. hello???

#indigoing