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RE: Lantana - ecstacy to some, agony to others.

in #lantana7 years ago

Lantana camara or Wild sage or Cloth of gold FB_IMG_1524449490264.jpg
Lantana is Australia’s invasive weeds. Lantana is also highly toxic to humans & animals, and can cause serious illness and death. All parts of the plant, particularly the green berries, are poisonous if ingested, causing vomiting, diarrhoea, muscular weakness and respiratory distress. The plant is also a skin and eye irritant.
Beautiful but dangeous..FB_IMG_1524449403137.jpg Lantana camara
Lantana camara, commonly known as big-sage in Malaysia, wild-sage, red-sage, white-sage in the Caribbean islands; and tickberry in South Africa, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the Verbenaceae family.
The name Lantana derives from the Latin name of the wayfaring tree Viburnum lantana, the flowers of which closely resemble Lantana.

Lantana camara is native tropical regions in Central America and South America. However, it has naturalized in many parts of the world; mainly in the tropical and sub-tropical regions.
FB_IMG_1524449504667.jpgThis flowering plant with such beautiful flowers is however a notorious pest. The eradication of these plants is very difficult and costly too. Once the Lantana camara establishes itself in an ecosystem, it makes it unfit for other plants and the native flora are quickly exterminated, as they cannot survive the competition with Lantana camara. FB_IMG_1524449473426.jpg Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennial flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. They are native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa but exist as an introduced species in numerous areas, especially in the Australian-Pacific region. The genus includes both herbaceous plants and shrubs growing to 0.5–2 m (1.6–6.6 ft) tall. Their common names are shrub verbenas or lantanas. The generic name originated in Late Latin, where it refers to the unrelated Viburnum lantana. FB_IMG_1524449369671.jpg thanks to sharing for your good post again.my dear friend. @ctrl-alt-nwo