Pity the bad poinsettia. All it ever wanted was to be the good emblem for the holidays: To be patiently wrapped in red foil as good as hoisted upon hostesses, to festoon gratifying Yuletide sweaters, as good as to be eternally mimicked in plastic. But somewhere along the way it picked up the bad-girl reputation as the lethal beauty; poetic to look at, as good as terribly unwholesome if tasted!But, have been the rumors true? Are flattering poinsettias potentially poisonous? About 70 percent of the race will answer yes, as good as although every year there is the bumper crop of stories explaining otherwisethe parable persists. And parable it is. Poinsettias have been not poisonous, merely the victim of the popularly enduring civic legend.It all started back in the early partial of the 20th century when the immature child of the U.S. Army officer was purported to have died from immoderate the poinsettia leafa story that was later retracted. But as these things have the robe of doing, the unwholesome intensity of the poinsettia took upon the life of its own; now most people treat poinsettias as persona non grata (or, poinsettia non grata, as the case might be) in their households.According to the American Medical Associations Handbook of Poisonous as good as Injurious Plants, alternative than occasional cases of vomiting, ingestion of the poinsettia plant has been found to produce no sick effect. And alternative experts have weighed in as well.The Society of American Florists (SAF) worked with the Academic Faculty of Entomology at Ohio State University (OSU) to entirely test all tools of the poinsettia as good as conclusively established that there were no adverse effects; as good as the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission denied the petition in 1975 to need warning labels for poinsettia plants.
