Lantana camara L.

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[.Extract from “Queensland Agricultural. Journal/} Aprilt 111111*1
Latitarla (Lontana cat)d Poisoi)
Peach (Trema aspera).
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HERBARIUM OF
Linonan Natural History Survey and Museum
Lingnan University, Canton. China.
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fairly common; dry level land, sandy
soil, roedside, hsdge, village commons 4
woody, climbsr; 4 a, high; fl, red and &S
yellow, 111-welling.,	z|
Tat Wong Ling and vicinity
Ti^ Pin Tin Village **§03#
(Ching Mai Distriet ®if Hi)
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THEIR EFFECTS ON STOCK.
By K. S. MCINTOSH, B.V.Sc., Veterinary Officer, and C. T. wÊlTB, .
Government Botanist.
T ANT ANAS are common in garden culture in warm temperate conn-
*-J tries, and in colder ones are often cultivated in hot houses. Several
forms, of the common lantana are recognised. /Two red flowéring varie-
ties have been described—namely, Yar. crocea and Yar. sanguinea. These
are fery close, distinctions given by L/ H. Bailey in “The Standard
Encyclopaedia of Horticulture,1 ? being as follows ! *
Yar. crocea—Flowers opening sulphur yellow and changing to
saffron.
Yar. sanguinea—Flowers opening saffron yellow and changing
to bright red.	, ,
The former, I think, is . thé common bright flowering lantana
naturalised in Queensland, thé hitter being common in garden culture,
and probably run out in one or two localities. The typical form, which
is by far the more abundant, has flowers of a much paler hue, opening
pale cream with a dark yellow centre, and dying off lilae or purple.
There has been quite a good deal of experimental work Carried out
with feeding tests on the different varieties. - In Southern Queensland
and in coastal New South Wales the red flowering forms have been found
more toxic, but in experiments carried out at the Animal Health Station,
Oonoonbah, near Townsville, the common or purplish flowering variety
has been found the more toxic, red flowering forms being more or less
innocuous.
LANTANA (LANTANA CAMARA).
Description.
A rambling shrub, stems 4-angled, the angles bearing short, some-
what recurved prickles. Leaves opposite, bright green above, paler
beneath, averaging 2£ in. long and 1£ in. wide, but variable as to size,
on short stalks about i in., subcordate, rather pointed at fEer apex,
scabrid (rough to the touch) above, the veins and veinlets clothed with
white, rather soft hairs beneath, margins serrate-creuate. ...Flowers in
heads of about three flowers, about .1 in. across, on stalks about as long
as the leaves, opening pale-cream with a dark-yellow centre, dying off
lilac or purplish. Fruit fleshy,-purplish-black When ripe,-ovoid, about
^ in. long, borne on the floral receptacle which becomes elongated,
thickened and somewhat fleshy.	:	',
Distribution.
- A native of tropical America, now widely distributed as a weed over.
the tropical and sub-tropical portions of* the world.
Poisonous Properties.
The poisonous principle of lantana is not known. It is probably
an ethereal oil.
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Lantana Camara L*
Verified by H. N. Moldenke and cited
by him in his Monograph of the Genus
March, 1945
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