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DR. JOEL POINTSETT

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Mexico’s Christmas gift to the Christian world

By ROSES AND THORNS | By Alejandro R. Roces | December 17, 2002 - 12:00am

Undoubtedly, the most popular Christmas flower is the poinsettia. This is an indigenous Mexican flower that during the times of the Aztecs was known as cuetlaxochitl, the flower of purity. When Mexico was Christianized,...

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