How did the myth of poinsettias being poisonous start?

Scary stuff. Luckily for us, it's not true. It's a wonderfully persistent myth though, and it seems to have arisen from a long-ago death of a child's being attributed to the wrong cause. According to Ecke Poinsettia Growers: “The poinsettia poison myth had its origin in 1919 when a. Poinsettia. read more

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According to Ecke Poinsettia Growers: “The poinsettia poison myth had its origin in 1919 when a . two-year-old child of an Army officer stationed in Hawaii died of poisoning, and the cause was incorrectly assumed to be a poinsettia leaf.” Since that non-poinsettia death in 1919, there haven’t been any real ones either. read more