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2. Why Red and Green Became the Shades of the Holiday Season

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   This celebration honored the Roman god, Saturn, and happened around the Winter Solstice, with some of its traditions passing down to Christmas, including the colors red and green. These two colors ...

3. Metrosideros excelsa - Wikipedia

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   Metrosideros excelsa. Sol. ex Gaertn. Metrosideros excelsa, commonly known as pōhutukawa, [2] New Zealand Christmas tree, [3] [4] and iron tree, [5] is a coastal evergreen tree in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, that produces a brilliant display of red (or occasionally orange, yellow [6] or white [7]) flowers, each consisting of a mass of stamens.

4. Polystichum acrostichoides - Wikipedia

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   Polystichum acrostichoides, commonly denominated Christmas fern, is a perennial, evergreen fern native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to Minnesota and south to Florida and eastern Texas. [3] It is one of the most common ferns in eastern North America, being found in moist and shady habitats in woodlands, stream banks and rocky ...

5. Spirobranchus giganteus - Wikipedia

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   The multicolored spirals are highly derived structures for feeding and respiration. Spirobranchus giganteus is similar to most tube-building polychaetes. It has a tubular, segmented body of an approximate length of 3.8 cm (1.5 in) [2] covered with chaetae, small appendages that aid the worm's mobility. Because it does not move outside its tube ...

6. Tecoma stans - Wikipedia

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   Tecoma stans is a semi-evergreen shrub or small tree, growing up to 10 m (30 ft) tall. [1] It features opposite odd-pinnate green leaves, with 3 to 13 serrate, 8- to 10-cm-long leaflets. The leaflets, glabrous on both sides, have a lanceolate blade 2–10 cm long and 1–4 cm wide, with a long acuminate apex and a wedge-shaped base.

7. White House Christmas tree - Wikipedia

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   The White House Christmas Tree, also known as the Blue Room Christmas Tree, is the official indoor Christmas tree at the residence of the president of the United States, the White House. The first indoor Christmas tree was installed in the White House sometime in the 19th century (there are varying claims as to the exact year) and since 1961 ...