The poinsettia everyone wants

Very nice - doubt it would survive outdoors in Scotland though

or pretty much anywhere else in the uk~ maybe the Scillies?What is the lowest temperature?would it survive in a heated greenhouse? love the colour!

lovely colour of the red bracts.

Its so Lovely & how clever of u 2 grow it 2 :)

SBG is it just my screen - the bracts look magenta coloured to me...

~that's right MG~ that's what it looks like to me too! bordering on fuchsia pink!

It's very nice. I wish we could grow them here in Wales but we only have the indoor type, I'm not really keen on those myself.
Merry Christmas :o))

Thank god that is what you are seeing too Arlene - thought I was going mad...

The color comes from it not being lipstick red and the mobile phone I have. It is more magenta than pink.

Hi, do you know the name of this variety?

As far as I can figure out, the key element to getting it to grow as a perennial is temperature, above 50 F. But I was told I couldn't plant a store bought poinsettia outside, and sure enough it died after 4 months. It could be the way the plant was crossed back in the 50's. But the only two places I've seen it growing outside is here and Auckland, NZ.

I also have a very large poinsettia in my garden in Cyprus. Everyone else has them too. I also, was told it is the same variety as the Christmas type but that the little inside ones have been forced and will only grow outside if you are very lucky. Does anyone know what the original poinsettia was like? I believe it was found in South America by a man from Portugal but I could be wrong.