Holiday Poinsettia plants seem to be selling well at Mainescape, a nursery in nearby Blue Hill. These plants are native to Mexico, where they have long been used to decorate nativity scenes.
They’re named after Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first United States Minister to Mexico, who shipped the original specimens to this country.
The red “flowers” are not flowers; they’re a form of the plant’s leaf known as bracts. (Images taken in Blue Hill [in store] and Brooklin [in vase], Maine on December 13, 2021.)