Euphorbia

The Aztecs in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries called that place "Cuetlaxochitl" in their native Nahuatl language. Cuitllatl suggests "residue" and xochiti means flower, thus it is "the bloom that develops in the deposits or earth ".Montezuma, the final of the Aztec leaders, had poinsettia flowers brought around what's current day Mexico Town by caravans. The Aztecs saw the place as a symbol of purity and tried it as a color and against fevers. Seventeenth century Spanish botanist Wear Juan Balme mentions poinsettia crops in his writings. He discovered the seed flourishing on the slopes and in the valleys near Cuernavaca. He described the place as having large green leaves and a small rose surrounded by fantastic red bracts, nearly as though for protection. At once the Spanish Franciscan Friars, who resolved in the Taxco place of southern Mexico, included the appropriate cold temperatures developed red flowers of the plants in their Fiest...