You walk through parks,bushes,countryside,forests a lot and something goes unnoticed several times.Though it has fascinated you many times,brought smile to your face when you are walking through dense bushes with no signs of blossoms, its beauty get overwhelmed by your thoughts.
As told earlier,i have tried to capture the beauty through My Lens.Yes! today i m talking about one of the wild flower that was once introduced as ornament and now gone unnoticed due to its wild spreading nature,Lantana camara also known as white sage,red sage or tick berry!!These pictures are taken by me a month back on a trip to waterfall.
Known scientifically as Lantana camara,of Verbenacea family is native to American tropics,mainly West Indies.It spread from America to the other part of the world when it was brought by Dutch Explorers and cultivated worldwidely.Now,it is present in almost every part of the world as a wild plant leading to reduction in biodiversity.
Flowers have always been fascinating and appears clustered at the top of small stem and changes colour fromwhite to pink or lavender or yellow to orange or red.
Regarding it Medicinal use,Lantana leaves display antimicrobial,fungicidal or insecticidal properties and used in traditional herbal medicines to treata variety of ailments including Skin patches,Ulcer,Asthma,Rabies,Measles.
Grown mainly as an ornamental plant,it has ability to last long time without water and has got no pests or diseases.It also attracts butterflies and birds which add different scenario .
Despite its beauty,it has got toxic effect on livestocks. Pentacyclic triterpenoids,found in toxic substances result in liver damage and photosensitivy.Also,Toxic sustances decrease the growth of neighbouring plants by inhibiting germination and root elongation as well.
And so,different maneuvres including biological,chemical and mechanical are being conducted to destroy these plants.
This is all for today.I will be back with similar moments captured in my upcoming posts.If you find these shots pleasing,please upvote,follow and resteem.
