Lantana camara L

This is an erect, branching shrub of the VERBENACEAE family, 0.5 to 2 m high. Stems are 4-angled, armed with hooked prickles. Leaves opposite, blade ovate, 4 to 10 cm long, with coarse surfaces and toothed margins. Flowers are dense, longstalked, flat-topped, head-like, axillary spikes about 2.5-cm across. The corolla is sympetalous, with a curved tube and a spreading limb about 8 mm wide; yellow, orange, red or pink in color. Fruit is a shiny, dark purple or black, globose drupe, 5 to 6 mm wide.

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