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Cuetlaxochitl (kwet-la-SHO-sheet)

Theresa Ricke-Kiely

Clinical Faculty, Mindful Leadership Consultant and Author of The Path to Mindful Leadership. Practices for Nonprofit Success.

发布日期: 2023年12月25日

The popular Christmas flower known in this country as the poinsettia was first called cuetlaxochitl (kwet-la-SHO-sheet) by the Aztecs. The Americanized word poinsettia comes from Joel Robert Poinsett, American ambassador to Mexico and US secretary of war, who was responsible for the displacement of more indigenous people than any other secretary of war, and also a botanist who shipped the cuetlaxochitl from Mexico to South Carolina in 1825. We remember this history and honor the cuetlaxochitl’s original cultivators by calling them by this name.

Excerpted from St Mark’s Christmas Eve bulletin 2023 (Tucson, Arizona)

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