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In Mexico, there was once a little girl who cried because she had no flowers to bring to a nativity scene in her town. An angel came and told her to pick a weed and plant it by the baby Jesus. She did and the small weed turned into a giant poinsettia.
In America the plant got its name from Joel Roberts Poinsett, a South Carolina doctor with an interest in botany who went on to be a U.S. ambassador to Mexico. When he traveled to Mexico, he saw a plant with bright red leaves and had it brought back to the United States.
When he got back to the U.S. he propagated the plant and had it sent out to some of his friends who were nurserymen. They ended up calling the plant a poinsettia, after Poinsett.
In America the plant got its name from Joel Roberts Poinsett, a South Carolina doctor with an interest in botany who went on to be a U.S. ambassador to Mexico. When he traveled to Mexico, he saw a plant with bright red leaves and had it brought back to the United States.
When he got back to the U.S. he propagated the plant and had it sent out to some of his friends who were nurserymen. They ended up calling the plant a poinsettia, after Poinsett.
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