{"id":668133,"date":"2024-02-06T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=668133"},"modified":"2024-12-02T10:07:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:07:30","slug":"cals-grads-are-career-ready","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Poinsettias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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Discover how poinsettias went from being a native shrub of Mexico and Guatemala to America’s favorite Christmas plant with these facts from CALS professor and national poinsettia expert John Dole. \n \n \n <\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n\n

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\n Are poinsettias poisonous? \ud83e\udd14 NC State\u2019s poinsettia expert John Dole has the answer \u2014 and he can prove it too.

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