History of the Poinsettia: The Christmas Flower
3 min readDec 12, 2020
In the United States, December 12 is National Poinsettia Day.
Poinsettia in Mexico
During college, I studied one summer in Cuernavaca, a little town about an hour and a half south of Mexico City. Nochebuena, the Mexican name of the flower English-speakers call poinsettia, was discovered in Taxco and the valleys surrounding Cuernavaca.
