painted leaf

Noun

• tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers

• poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  poinsettia , Christmas star , Christmas flower , lobster plant , Mexican flameleaf , Euphorbia pulcherrima , fire-on-the-mountain , Mexican fire plant , Euphorbia cyathophora