Poinsettia Moods
by Karen Adams
Title
Poinsettia Moods
Artist
Karen Adams
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography
Description
No flower says Christmas like a beautiful poinsettia. Poinsettias are part of the Euphorbiaceae or Spurge family. Botanically, the plant is known as Euphorbia pulcherrima.
Many plants in the Euphorbiaceae family ooze a milky sap which some people with latex allergies have had a skin reaction after touching the leaves. For pets, this sap may cause mild irritation or nausea and so it is best to keep pets away from poinsettias, especially puppies and kittens.
Poinsettias are not poisonous. A study at Ohio State University showed that a 50-pound child would have to eat more than 500 leaves to have any harmful effect. Plus poinsettia leaves have an awful taste which should make most avoid chewing on them anyway! If they do continue to chew it could cause vomiting and diarrhea.
The beautiful showy colored parts in my image here are actually colored bracts (modified leaves) not flowers as most people would think. Poinsettias have also been called the lobster flower and the flame-leaf flower, due to the red color.
Joel Roberts Poinsett introduced the poinsettia plant to the United States from Mexico. Poinsett was a botanist, physician and the first United States Ambassador to Mexico. Living in Ohio it is hard to imagine that in Mexico the poinsettia is a perennial shrub that will grow 10-15 feet tall!
Today, there are more than 100 varieties of poinsettias which come in colors like the traditional red, white, pink, burgundy, marbled and speckled.
The Paul Ecke Ranch in California grows over 70% of all Poinsettias purchased in the United States and does about 50% of the world-wide sales of Poinsettias.
This image is the original one taken of this scene and is one that I played with in a series of differing versions. I really liked the shapes and negative shapes here and felt it could have a variety of moods with different color. Please look in my Series Gallery for those variations. Thank you so much for looking at my work. I appreciate that so much.
I am so concerned with our environment that I have decided to donate any money I make from any sales of this image to the ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND.....because the Earth needs a good lawyer! We all need to speak up and support efforts to protect our environment. We will not get a second chance!
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March 24th, 2017
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