The Christmas season plant is native to Mexico, but Americans hold patents to most varieties.
But because most poinsettia varieties are patented in the U.S. and have international protections, Mexican farmers have been forced to pay breeder's rights fees to grow and sell them., which roughly means "leathered flower" in Náhuatl.Other Mesoamerican civilizations had different names. The Maya, for example, called itIt wasn't until the first Spanish settlers
arrived in Mexico in the 16th century that the plant was specifically linked to the Christmas season. Colonizers used what they eventually called "flor de nochebuena," or Christmas Eve flower, to decorate nativity scenes to mark Christmas andbecame an independent nation, diplomat Joel Robert Poinsett — who counted botany among his hobbies — was appointed as the first U.S. ambassador to the country.phytosanitary regulations.
Eventually, a sample from Poinsett made its way to a Philadelphia Botanic Garden, which debuted the plant in the U.S. at an 1829Among the poinsettia's early propagators
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