{"id":10423,"date":"2012-05-12T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=10423"},"modified":"2012-05-02T23:21:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T06:21:36","slug":"about-50-of-all-poinsettias-sold-in-the-world-are-sold-by-the-ecke-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/about-50-of-all-poinsettias-sold-in-the-world-are-sold-by-the-ecke-family\/","title":{"rendered":"About 50% of All Poinsettias Sold in the World are Sold by the Ecke Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/poinsettia-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10555\" title=\"Poinsettia Facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/poinsettia-facts.jpg\" alt=\"Poinsettia Facts\" width=\"559\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/poinsettia-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/poinsettia-facts-340x365.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ecke family of Encinitas, California once had a virtual monopoly on poinsettia sales starting in the early 20th century due to the fact that they discovered a way to create compact, fuller poinsettias by grafting two varieties of poinsettia together.\u00a0 Other poinsettias sold at the time tended to look more like the weeds they are.\u00a0 In the 1990s, however, a University researcher discovered this method and published\u00a0 how to do it.\u00a0 Since then, other poinsettia growers and distributors have popped up, but the Ecke family still sells about 70% of all poinsettias purchased in the United States and about 50% of the world-wide sales of poinsettias.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Poinsettias Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/poinsettias-are-not-poisonous\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ecke family of Encinitas, California once had a virtual monopoly on poinsettia sales starting in the early 20th century due to the fact that they discovered a way to create compact, fuller poinsettias by grafting two varieties of poinsettia together.\u00a0 Other poinsettias sold at the time tended to look more like the weeds they are.\u00a0 In the 1990s, however, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2464,2463,1643,2539,1112,2524],"class_list":["post-10423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-know-it","tag-now-you-know","tag-plant-facts","tag-poinsettia-facts","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-you-should-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10556,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions\/10556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}