The Christmas plant — poinsettia
Poinsettias are far and away the most popular potted flowering or foliage plant of the Christmas season. In fact, poinsettias are the single most valuable flowering plant crop grown in the U.S., with about 17 million pots of all sizes sold wholesale, last year. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Floriculture Crops Survey, the wholesale value of U.S.-grown poinsettias was $154 million last year, which amounted to a modest annual decline of about 5 percent from the $161.5 million wholesale value of poinsettias in 2007. Still, they remained America’s top-value wholesale flowering plant crop, as they have been for decades, followed somewhat closely by orchids, which had a wholesale value of about $137.5 million. Compare that to the wholesale value of chrysanthemums, which was just over $35 million in 2008, and the wholesale value of Easter lilies, which was just under $25 million. Paul Ecke Ranch, in Encinitas, Calif.
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