La Cuetlaxochitl became the most famously misnamed holiday flower

Poinsettias are everywhere. You can purchase them at a local nursery, grocery store, pharmacy, home improvement chain, or anywhere. But poinsettias are a misnomer, or rather, the capitalist name. La Cuetlaxochitl is the original real name of these stunning plants with red, yellow, pink, or white bracts, some solid and streaked, others marbled and multicolored, within a deep forest flower green context. — Read the rest