Plants of lantana or floral tenderness have a characteristic short body, growing spreading on the ground, favored by insects like butterflies, and available in various colors. This one is red.
Lantana orange is one type of lantana plants with an attractive orange (orange) flower color. People in Indonesia recognize this flower as a flower of elegance because the leaves or flowers smell less unpleasant when squeezed. This plant is a flowering perennial plant that has a bunch of umbrella shapes umbrella. Flower umbrella a bunch at the end of the branch with a number of two colored flowers namely yellow and orange. Lantana originally came from the tropics of America and Africa then spread to the Pacific and Tropical regions. The wild orange Lantana plant generally has a height of 1.5 to 2 meters. Plants lantana also bred as an ornamental plant has a height of about 30-60 cm and if planted in the soil can form lush plants with a width of up to 120 meters. The beauty of Lantana and the frequent flowering encourages the Bonsai hobbyists to begin to glance at Lantana for bonsai. Lantana is very easy to grow, lantana flowers can bloom in a fairly long time. Flower crown shaped like a disc with a diameter of about 5 cm. lantana leaf surface coarse with rare toothed leaf edge. Flower or Lantana flowers do not like too frequent watering and much because the roots will quickly rot.
Klasifikasi ilmiah
Kingdom: Plantae
Divisi: Angiospermae
Ordo: Lamiales
Famili: Verbenaceae
Genus: Lantana
Spesies: L. camara