Poinsettia is a classic Christmas flower with its festive red and white bracts. A native of Mexico, poinsettia has some unique needs that make it a little more challenging to keep as a normal houseplant. But caring for a poinsettia year round has its own reward: new blooms for the next holiday season. About Poinsettias The poinsettia we know as a holiday plant is actually a shrub or small tree in its native Mexico and Central America. It grows 10 to 15 feet tall (3.0 to 4.6 m.) as a deciduous or semi-evergreen plant on mid-elevation slopes along the Pacific Ocean. Its native habitat is tropical and seasonally wet. What many people describe as the poinsettia flowers, that showy red part, are actually bracts. Bracts are modified leaves that surround the flower, which on poinsettia is the small yellow bloom in the center. Most poinsettia bracts are red, but in […]
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