what causes a poinsetta to give off a foul odor?
I was given four poinsettas, one red, one pink and two white. They give off a horrible odor like a mix between urine and skunk type body odor. Almost like rotten behind. It has permeated my entire home and I had to sit them outside just to get the smell out of my house and now the front porch smells like the south end of a north bound dog.
Disease causes the foul odor.
Several diseases affect production of poinsettia, including foliar diseases such as Botrytis gray mold, powdery mildew, Alternaria blight, Xanthomonas blight, Erwinia blight, Phytophthora blight, and root diseases such as Pythium, Phytophthora and Rhizoctonia root rot. Powdery mildew is a fairly recent disease problem in poinsettia production that can develop explosively late in the crop production cycle. Scab caused by Sphaceloma poinsettiae, normally a disease problem only in states like Florida and Hawaii with subtropical climates, has been introduced nationwide the past couple of seasons with infected rooted cuttings from propagators in Central America. On the other hand, black root rot caused by Thielaviopsis basicola, a soilborne pathogen, was a serious disease of poinsettia in the 1950s and early 60s until the floriculture industry moved to soilless potting mixes. Since the 1920s poinsettias in the industry have exhibited a free-branching morphotype so that cultivars develop multiple branches from a single pinch resulting in many blooms. Recently, a phytoplasma etiology was described that explained the free branching habit
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