Poinsettias and the deadly misconception

[martianfencer]

In the early 1900s rumors began to circulate about the poinsettia's supposedly darker side--some claimed the plant was poisonous if ingested. Then, in 1919 the poinsettia's fate was sealed when a story circulated that a two-year-old boy died after eating a poinsettia leaf.
Well

Comments

[cvirtue]

This is a good thing to post for people -- we often forget to check reality when these things go around.

LOL

[kahnegabs]

This is funny: I was just headed to post this very same Fine Gardening info, and here you are, ahead of me!

Goes to show we read the same sources, doesn't it?

[fearless_em]

Hahaha. I wrote a rather good story in a creative writing class in college recounting this particular event.