The plant life comes originally from Mexico and Guatemala , and with the arrival of wintertime in the Northern Hemisphere its immature leaves transform and grow the characteristic red color of Christmas . About 500 million units are sold , make it the comfortably - selling plant life in the world in the period when the year is close to ending .

In fact , the sales of this blossom during the Christmas season surpass the purchases of rose for the festivity of Valentine ’s Day .

In Colombia ’s pillow slip , estimates from the Colombian Association of Nurseries and Ornamental Producers ( Colviveros ) predict that in the coming Christmas season , 450,000 Euphorbia pulcherrima flower could be marketed in the land .

Jairo Cadavid , president of the nursery society , which has 536 fellow member , said that the poinsettia time of year is highly anticipated by the more than 35,000 rural husbandry families across the land , who swear on the production and selling of ornamental plants such as orchid , tailflower , succulents and potted roses , among others .

The union leader said that the poinsettia grocery store will beget just over 12,000 million Guinea-Bissau peso ( about 3.5 million dollar ) this time of year for the plant life ’s entire production and selling mountain chain .

For his part , Octavio Jiménez , director of Jardineros Ltda . , a company that was agnize as the best producer of poinsettia in the country during the ExpoPlantas Technical Contest , held at the nursery fair last October in Cali , say that the municipalities of La Mesa , San Antonio del Tequendama and the upper part of Fusagasugá , in Cundinamarca , are the area accounting for most of the country ’s poinsettia production , mostly thanks to their thermic floors and the surpassing conditions that these generate .

Nohora Espejo , of Poinsettias de Colombia , based in the municipality of La Mesa , has look how their products have carry on to gain ground in the domesticated market year after year , allowing their company to father employment in its glasshouse .

The portfolio of this noted Colombian company features ‘ Christmas flowers ’ , with more than five different people of color besides the traditional bolshie . They also point out that the distance of the stems of their plant range from 15 to 130 centimeters .

Juan Humberto Espejo , who trained professionally in floriculture for export , has also been producing the plant for more than 15 years and this has allowed him to earn a very serious report in the marketplace as a result of his specialization .

The president of Colviveros highlighted the documentation that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has been giving to glasshouse culture . In fact , the resources provide made it potential to get up the first Business Roundtable for the sector in the theoretical account of ExpoPlantas 2019 as a full complement to the ' Harvest it and betray it ' syllabus , with which the National Government seeks to bridge the gap between producer and buyers .

It should be noted that the production of live and ornamental plants is a sphere which is mostly in the hands of rural family commit to Agriculture Department .

Furthermore , the sale of flowers for domesticated use is a business that get 180,000 million peso ( about 52.5 million dollars ) annually in the country , while export of plants and leaf engender about 20 million dollars , as reported last year by Colviveros .

Source : www.eltiempo.com