Color Challenge: Monday Red Ixora

Hello steemians, for today's Color challenge I want to show you this beautiful flower that is given by lots in the area where I currently live, you can notice it by the several photos I have achieved in different places his name is Lantana and I am going to talk to you a little She based on some information from Google.

This flower adopts different names depending on the region, for example in Colombia we call it the Maltese Cross, it is a kind of shrub with numerous flowers of a small size, which have a similar shape to an umbrella, its origin is Asian more precisely from the south of India is one of the most used in Gardening, it has approximately 400 varieties.

The plant is branched and usually reaches a meter in height, some varieties can reach up to 3 meters, with numerous bunches of flowers, the leaves can vary in scarlet, yellow and white.

Its uses are reserved for gardening, it is used in warm climates to divide areas of gardens or to form massifs of many flowers, in cold climates it is grown in greenhouses or in houses with sufficient lighting, it is very tolerant to pruning thanks to being very branched