Lantana camara, wild into ornamental

Lantana camara colony

White flowering of Lantana camara

Lantana camara, a species of plants that i was found in natural habitat in Tembalang, Semarang. Yes, about last year i observed the vegetation around my college, Diponegoro University with my “best” fiends. We found some species that we never seen before. One of them is Lantana camara (Tembelekan in javanese). Its existed almost in every plot of our samples. They lives very well among another shrubs. Green leaves and wide and looks so healthy. We were so excited when found it species. I thought that it is the beautiful kind of flower we have found. Red-pink, yellow-white, purple or orange-yellow we could find there.

Lantana camara is a Verbenaceae family. It also name as Spanish flag, west-indian flower, or Red (Yellow, Wild) Sage They live in. colony. Like another shrubs, it has small rod. Hight about 20-50cm. Also it has Inflorescence flowering.

Yellow flowering of Lantana camara

Now, i found Lantana camara in a garden area in front of a fuel station (SPBU), located in Bojonegoro-East Java, Indonesia, in lower mainland area. It seems that the flower were planted by people as ornamental flower. I saw a colony of yellow-white flower there. The differences between garden and naturally plant i saw in its leaf, the garden plant is smaller than natural. It might be caused by the limited available nutrition around in the garden soil.