Plant ID Week 5

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Plant ID Week 5
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Red MapleAcer rubrum

• Blooms red in the spring
• Fall colors orange, red and yellow
• Fast growing, deciduous tree
• Petioles are usually red

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Chrysanthemummums

• Garden mum
• Blooms in the fall, commonly
• seen in fall pumpkin scenes
• Perennial
• Also used as a cut flower by florists

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PoinsettiaEuphorbia pulcherrima means very
beautiful

• Native to Mexico
• Natives used it as a dye for clothing
• President John Quincy Adams ambassador to Mexico
  was Joel Poinsett from SC. (1820's)
• He was interested in Botany, so he brought
  cuttings of a poinsettia bush that he found on
  the roadside back to the US and propagated it.

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• Poinsettias come in over 100 varieties

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More Poinsettia info

• In the 1900's the Ecke family in CA grew the
  poinsettia in their landscape, then began growing
  them in greenhouses for Christmas.
• Ecke Ranch is still in existence is the 1
  producer of poinsettias in the world, growing 80
  of all wholesale plants.
• Some of our plants came from stock at the Ecke
  Greenhouse

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• In nature ( warmer climates), poinsettias are
  perennial flowering shrubs that can grow to ten
  feet tall. But they are not cold tolerant.
• The showy colored parts that looks like the
  flowers are actually colored bracts (modified
  leaves).
• The flower is the tiny center yellow part called
  cyathia.

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• The more blooms/leaves, the more expensive the
  plant.
• Poinsettias are not poisonous.
• Poinsettias represent over 85 percent of the
  potted plant sales during Christmas with over
  220 million in sales yearly.

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• Must have plenty of heat (remember theyre cold
  sensitive)
• Cant tolerate drought (leaves will yellow)
• Tender plants be careful when moving them and
  watering so you dont break stems or leaves