But now, nearly 200 years after the plant with the ... published accounts reveal Poinsett as a disruptive advocate for business interests abroad, a slaveholder on a rice plantation in the U.S ...

Several prominent horticulturalists in the United States later reported that Poinsett sent them plant samples ... widow from South Carolina who owned a rice plantation and almost 100 enslaved ...

As it turns out, the red-leafed plant was introduced to the United States by botanist and statesman Joel Poinsett (1779-1851), who as the first U.S. Minister to Mexico found the plant while ...

POINSETT COUNTY, AR (KAIT) - The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture has announced plans to build a rice research facility in Poinsett County. A news release Tuesday from the ...

Joel Roberts Poinsett is given credit for bringing the popular red and green plant to the U.S. Constantine Johnny/Getty Images ...