Euphorbia subg. Poinsettia Euphorbia subg. Poinsettia Euphorbia" subg. "Poinsettia is a subgenus deriving from the genus "Euphorbia", and is endemic to North America. <nowiki> </nowiki>It contains around 24 species, of which the best known is "E. pulcherrima", the poinsettia. This species grows wild in the mountains on the Pacific slope of Mexico, and despite many legends, no one is quite sure from which wild populations the cultivated varieties derive. This taxon was first published at genus rank under the name Poinsettia by Robert Graham in 1836. It was demoted to a section of "Euphorbia" as E." sect. "Poinsettia by Henri Ernest Baillon in
Christmas in Hawaii in the islands celebrate the Christmas traditions of Hawaii in their own unique ways, which may be religious or plainly secular. Even Santa Claus (Hawaiian: Kanakaloka) himself is not wearing his corporate red and white suit, but has swapped it for flowery Hawaiian clothes. Christmas wreaths are made from the poinsettia plant. The phrase "Mele Kalikimaka" can be translated from Hawaiian to mean "Merry Christmas". It is also a Hawaiian themed Christmas song composed by Robert Alex Anderson in 1949. The phrase is borrowed directly from English, but, since Hawaiian has a different phonological system (in particular, Hawaiian does not