The Tiny Visitor
by J McCombie
Title
The Tiny Visitor
Artist
J McCombie
Medium
Photograph - Untouched
Description
This piece has been featured in the FAA Group, "Macro Marvels".
Landmark Pink Dawn Lantana starts out light yellow and matures into a light pink/lavender. Brightly colored flower clusters cover mounds of dark green foliage. Vigorous Landmark Lantanas are ideal for mass plantings. Light lavender flowerettes are infused with popcorn yellow to create these fun blooms. Their tiny throats are highlighted with bright orange. This popular annual always delivers in abundance, producing clusters of trumpet shaped flowers. All summer color, and impressive amounts of it, enshroud this upright shrubby plant. Lantana loves to soak up the heat and requires little maintenance. A horticultural wonder with it's low water and low maintenance needs, and yet it will be the focal point in your garden no matter where you plant it. It looks great whether in the garden or on the patio. Lantana camara 'Landmark Pink Dawn' can bloom year round in zones 10 and 11 for a real treat in your tropical themed garden. Beware of the toxic fruits that form after the flowers are dropped--they will look like fat blackberries but can be fatal if ingested by kids or pets. In very temperate zones beware that Lantana can actually become invasive and may be even banned in your area as a noxious weed.
The Landmark Series of lantana is a group of everblooming, larger-growing evergreen tropical shrub grown as tender perennials or bedding annuals. Native to the tropical Americas, lantana produces numerous rounded clusters of small, tubular flowers.
Lantana prefer a full sun location and moist, well drained, average soil. These plants are highly attractive to butterflies and look best when planted in masses. They offer brilliant color to beds and containers all season long and may be trained into tree-like standards in tropical zones.
Lantana camara has been called one of the world’s worst weeds. It is highly invasive in some locations. There are sterile cultivars which may be used in the landscape. Lantana is a weed only in subtropical or tropical regions.
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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March 2nd, 2018
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