What Kind of Plant?
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Mary
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Mystery volunteer...does anyone out there recognize this "poinsettia" looking plant with orange berries?
12 answers
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yes it is a poinsettia. http://www.ncwildflower.org/index.php/plants/details/euphorbia-heterophylla/
360 Sod (Donna Dixson)
on Jul 26, 2013
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OMG that was sooo quick Donna. Thank you much for your answer!!!
Mary
on Jul 26, 2013
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it is a summer poinsettia. i have them in my yard. They come back every year.
Robbie Frazier
on Jul 27, 2013
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I had one last year and have about 10 this year, a trend that if it continues will be a problem.
Douglas Hunt
on Jul 27, 2013
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my uncle and aunt had these - they kept them in planter boxes and they did multiply but in those boxes they look beautiful and full!
Kitchen Kelli
on Jul 27, 2013
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summer or Mexican poinsettas, my mother always had some in her flower beds and yes they reseed fast. Bees like them. The seed pods burst open in the summer heat and fling the seed outward.
Emaline Spangler
on Jul 28, 2013
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these are the wild version that horticulturist hybridized over the decades to create the Christmas poinsettias we all know
Susie
on Jul 28, 2013
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Those are so pretty and I think they would look great in my garden, especially since they reproduce a lot..
Tracey T
on Jul 28, 2013
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They. Will spread very quickly if you do keep them contained
Lorna
on Jul 28, 2013
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Poinsettia plants are native to Central America, especially an area of southern Mexico known as 'Taxco del Alarcon' where they flower during the winter. It derives its common English name from Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first United States Minister to Mexico, who introduced the plant into the United States in 1825 What we call the Poinsettia is native to Mexico and was called Cuetlaxochitl by the Aztecs. Its name signified "Flower that withers",........... a 'mexican' poinsettia, that is naturalized here in N.E. Florida (Jax) along tree lines, highways and water ways..........a very hardy perennial that's prolific and spreads quite nicely with minimum concern to contain it for regular garden folks......................a simple flower bed in the middle of a lawn or partially shaded, isolated area of the yard..........plants grow sparsely - can be mixed with plants like ornamental peppers this time of the year........
Rex W
on Oct 18, 2013
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I treat this as a weed in my yard. Douglas Hunt the trend will continue and it will most likely become a problem because they come up everywhere
Leona G
on Mar 05, 2014
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Is this plant poisonous?
Audrea Clemence
on Mar 17, 2014
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