These Fires Don't Burn You
By Xavier Bage
@franxav (13836)
India
January 7, 2022 7:52am CST
There is a burning bush in front of my main door. This poinsettia fireball bush is heavily laden with flowers. So much so that its branches are bending low , almost touching the earth!
Many visitors who came to our campus on the New Year day , stood before this bush to get photographed and many took selfies with the bush behind.
Smaller poinsettia plants were part of the Christmas decorations near the manger. Well, now they have returned to the roof but they are still radiating the joy of the Christ's birth around. I can't but smile back when I see those beauties smiling.
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@Shavkat (139827)
• Philippines
7 Jan 22
It is my first time to see this kind of poinsettia. We only have like this.
I did not know that it is also a family member of Euphorbiaceae as 'Euphorbia Pulcherrima'. Most of you know the common name of it as 'poinsettia. In Baguio...
@Shaqueela (25)
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7 Jan 22
Here is the fact that 'Poinsettia' is taken from the name of the United States' first ambassador to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett