Hello to all community of @Steemit, I greet you from the Parroquia Santa Cruz del Zulia-Zulia State-Venezuela today I want to share this information of a beautiful flower called: "LANTANA CAMARA", but their common names are bloody flower, blood or blood as they say here in our country Venezuela is also known as camera, Spanish flag and cariaquito.
ts origin is from the American continent specifically from the country Brazil, the Lantana are a good option to fill your home and your garden of beautiful tropical nature the colors of its flowers are cute, striking and varied but the most common are the yellow and the red but also seen in yellow colors with white and red; white with yellow and red with yellow; white with purple and yellow; purple with the colors already mentioned, among others.
It is considered a beautiful tropical nature because it has expanded in many tropical areas and warm regions around the world. Its name Lantana Camara is because its leaves are elliptical and its flowers of different colors, also others speak or say that it is because its shape is like a real camera, which we use to take photographs, why if a camera is able to take it out best of you through a photo, a flower and nature can also do it with its smells, beauty and many other things, they make your day and make you smile.
The good thing about this plant is that it is very strong does not require much care and the advantage is that its flowers can persist throughout the year, but mostly its flowering time is in summer and until autumn.
In your Cultivation:
Requirements: They adapt to all types of soils if they are healthy. They resist the drought very well. Exposure to full sun. They live several years in subtropical regions, but in temperate zones it is cultivated as an annual plant. The commercially most important variety is the "lantana camara", with red and yellow flowers.
Pruning: They can be pruned strongly, recovering quickly.
Phytosanitary control: Because it is toxic, it is not usually eaten by herbivores or very attacked by parasites or diseases. Red aphid.
Reproduction: By seeds, or better by cuttings in the months of February and March, having to obtain the same from the branches that have already been turned into wood.
Uses: Lantana is cultivated mainly as a decorative plant, for its rapid growth and its cheerful and abundant flowers of colors for much of the year. Some species are used to attract butterflies or to favor honeybees, and others (in India) to perform handicrafts (as an alternative to bamboo).
I invite you to plant them in your garden are very good option to decorate or if you are going to marry you can use them for the bouquet that you must carry in your hands that big day, think about it you could make a difference by taking natural and non artificial flowers in your hands.
NOTE: In the photographs presented above you can only see the "Lantana" that are yellow and one other purple. Something very curious about these flowers is that they are used mostly in Venezuela for remedies boils and the water that comes out of them are taken to heal certain pains.
Others use them for spells, among many other things. I hope you liked my post, greetings.
For more information about this plant you can consult in these web pages, which I have used today as SOURCES:
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