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Lantana camara is a perennial, erect sprawling or scandent, shrub which typically grows to around 2 metres (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet) tall and form dense thickets in a variety of environments. Under the right conditions, it can scramble up into trees and can grow to 6 m (20 ft) tall.
Nov 30, 2023 · Lantana camara is a perennial shrub native to the American tropics and belongs to the Verbenaceae family. With the ability to adapt to the changing climate, lantana can tolerate high temperature and moisture.
Sep 29, 2020 · A special drive to uproot the invasive Lantana bushes in the Sajjangarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan’s Udaipur district has been carried out along with the plantation of native species on the cleared patches of land. This has helped in ecological restoration of grasslands and saved biodiversity.
Considered as one of the most invasive weed. L. camara is distributed as an ornamental plant throughout the world since the 17th century, the lantana is one of 100 species of the most invasive of the IUCN list.
Lantana (Lantana camara) has become one of the world’s most invasive weeds. Shonil Bhagwat and others analyze the history of lantana invasion and management in India, Australia and South Africa.
Aug 18, 2020 · A recent study found Lantana camara, a tropical American shrub, has invaded more than 40 percent of India’s tiger range. The Shivalik hills, Central India, and Southern Western Ghats are the worst hit.
Lantana camara L. First published in Sp. Pl.: 627 (1753) This species is accepted. The native range of this species is Mexico to Tropical America. It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is has environmental uses and social uses, as animal food, a poison, a medicine and invertebrate food and for fuel and food.
This datasheet on Lantana camara covers Identity, Overview, Distribution, Dispersal, Hosts/Species Affected, Diagnosis, Biology & Ecology, Environmental Requirements, Natural Enemies, Impacts, Uses, Prevention/Control, Further Information.
Vigorous, Lantana camara (Bigleaf Lantana) is a sun-loving evergreen shrub forming a large bushy mound of wrinkled, ovate, toothed, dark green leaves. The leaves are aromatic when bruised.
Lantana camara is an aromatic shrub with distinctive four-angled stems, often armed with recurved prickles. It has multicolored, insect pollinated, bisexual, potentially self-fertile flowers that produce purplish-black drupes by assorted sexual, semisexual, and apomictic mechanisms.
