Lantana named Little Lucky Lemon Cream #5
by J McCombie
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Lantana named Little Lucky Lemon Cream #5
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J McCombie
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Lucky Lemon Cream Lantana begins a strong golden egg yolk yellow, lightens to a lemon yellow and matures to a cream color. Each circle of flowers whitens in succession, so you often find flowers that remind you of a egg "sunny side up". When the entire umbel flower is fully mature, all it's florets are white. This popular annual always delivers in abundance, producing clusters of trumpet shaped flowers. So, if you are searching for a colorful, drought-tolerant, low-maintenance plant, then Lantana is the plant to have. Lantana loves to soak up the heat and requires little maintenance. It looks great whether in the garden or on the patio. Spacing: Plant 12 to 14h apart. Height: Grows 12h to 16h tall. How To Grow: Plant in full sun. Outstanding Features: Lantana is drought tolerant, low maintenance, and loves the heat. It blooms up to three weeks earlier than other compact lantanas. Tips: If lantana grows too large for your area, simply cut back as needed. Uses: Garden Bed, Containers, Landscapes, Xeriscapes
Lantana camara, also known as big-sage (Malaysia), wild-sage, red-sage, white-sage (Caribbean) and tickberry (South Africa), is a species of flowering plant within the verbena family, Verbenaceae, that is native to the American tropics. Lantana camara, often planted to embellish gardens, has spread from its native Central and South America to around 50 different countries, where it has become an invasive species. The name Lantana derives from the Latin name of the wayfaring tree Viburnum lantana, the flowers of which closely resemble Lantana.
Lantana camara is a small perennial shrub which can grow to around 2 m tall and form dense thickets in a variety of environments. Due to extensive selective breeding throughout the 17th and 18th Centuries for use as an ornamental plant there are now many different L. camara cultivars. Lantana camara has small tubular shaped flowers which each have four petals and are arranged in clusters in terminal areas stems. Flowers come in many different colours including red, yellow, white, pink and orange which differ depending on location in inflorescences, age, and maturity. After pollination occurs the colour of the flowers change (typically from yellow to orangish, pinkish, or reddish), this is believed to be a signal to pollinators that the pre-change colour contains a reward as well as being sexually viable, thus increasing pollination efficiency. The leaves are broadly ovate, opposite, and simple and have a strong odour when crushed. The fruit of L. camara is a berry-like drupe which turns from green to dark purple when mature. Both vegetative (asexual) and seed reproduction occur. Up to 12,000 fruits can be produced by each plant which are then eaten by birds and other animals which can spread the seeds over large distances, facilitating the spread of L. camara. The flower has a tutti frutti smell with a pepper undertone.
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February 6th, 2017
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