| Scientific Name: | Euphorbia pulcherrima |
| Common Name: | poinsettia |
| Family Name: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Origin: | Central America, Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering cut plant, Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular, Spreading, Stiffly upright, Twiggy |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glandular hairs, Ovate, Entire, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Cyathium, Yellow, Jan-Nov-Dec |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Green, Brown, Feb-Mar |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Widely sold and used indoors during winter; stem exudes white sap when broken; leaves alternate, most blades ovate, 6-8cm long x 5-8cm wide, cymose inflorescence about 2cm wide of cyathia with yellow nectaries and stamens, encircled with 5-7 coloured leaflike bracts that are commonly red (white or pink cvs.). | |