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Question about people calling all those red flowers 'poinsettias' in December

They're actually Euphorbia pulcherrima, and it matters because the real plant has specific light needs to turn color. My grandma in Tucson would keep hers in a dark closet for 14 hours a day starting in October.
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the_wren
the_wren16d ago
My friend killed three trying that closet trick.
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the_patricia
Yeah, @the_wren, that closet trick is a total plant killer.
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