Types Of Tree Species In Indonesia #33 Tembelekan (Lantana camara)
Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta (Vascular Plant)
Super Division: Spermatophyta (Produce seed)
Division: Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class: Magnoliopsida (double-dikotil)
Sub Class: Asteridae
Order: Lamiales
Family: Verbenaceae
Genus: Lantana
Species: Lantana camara
Lantana camara is an annual plant with characteristic features: Brown stem bark with rough surface. The leaves are oval-shaped green with a serrated leaf edge. The surface of the leaves is rough because there is a feather. The position of the leaf is opposite and the bone is pinnate.
This plant flower has a color that changes according to the phase ie from white to yellow, orange to red, and pink to red ros color. This change in color changes climate change. Usually these plants are present in humid countries only.
The characteristics of crops are as follows:
- Having many branches, twigs in the shape of a square, there are varieties of thorns and some are not spiked with a
height of 2 m. - It has a distinctive odor
- The leaves are single, oval-shaped, pointed, the edges are jagged, the top surface is hairy and feels grainy on the
palpable, rare-bottomed surfaces, the leaves sit opposite, and the pinnate bone is pinnate. - There are flowers that are white, yellow, pink, or other colors, forming a series of rasemos.
- It has a fruit similar to buns, when ripe is shiny black.