A poor girl on her way to church picked a plant that grew by the roadside to decorate the altar on the day Jesus was born. She could not afford decorations, so she thought that Jesus, for whom sincere intentions not material values are important, would be pleased by what nature gave. One day, the green, inconspicuous leaves of the plant turned a beautiful red and since that day, the plant has been called Flor de Nochebuena - the Christmas flower.
