HOW POINSETTIAS GOT A BAD RAP.(News)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | December 15, 2005 | Copyright

Byline: Lee Bowman Scripps Howard News Service

Joel Roberts Poinsett -- congressman, planter, diplomat and botanist that he was -- certainly never intended to poison anyone.

After bringing several specimens back from Mexico, where he had served as the first U.S. ambassador to the newly independent country, he shared distinctive plants with red flowers among his friends and neighbors in Greenville, S.C.

Later, as the festive plant became more popular, horticulturalist William Prescott gave Euphorbia pulcherrima a new name, poinsettia.

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