Monday, August 23, 2010

Name this flower for 10?

I took a photograph of this beautiful flower in Benidorm yesterday, it's such a wonderful colour, but what is it? The head of the flower is about 1.5 inches in diameter.





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Name this flower for 10?
It is the Lantan species. Lantana camera. Grows wild and also used as hedge plant in gardens.





The flower is a whole group of flowers arranged on the disc and the flowes start opening from the periphery and move towards the centre.





The flower on day it opens is yellow in colour and the colour changes to pink or red on day 2.


It remains on the flower head for 4-8 days and hence you will see pink and yellow flowers in the flowerdisc.





It is also available in single colours like white, yellow only. yellowish white, purple. red only and saffron color.


The plant has a strong aromatic odour.
Reply:Lantana, easily available in the house plant section of any good garden centre. It will not survive outdoors during the UK winter. I have had one which is happy in a frost free greenhouse during the winter.
Reply:It's called a lantana...Google images and you'll see =)





Beautiful pic, by the way!
Reply:It is called a Lantana, it is classed as a weed in S-Africa and people were asked to remove them from their gardens etc. It is an invader plant.
Reply:What a nice closeup. I'll go along with lantana.
Reply:Lantana camara - Yellow Sage Verbenaceae
Reply:I didnt have a clue but its a beautiful picture
Reply:lantana......lovely
Reply:i knew i wouldn't know the answer just wanted to admire it. It's very pretty.
Reply:It looks like some sort of Primula. Gosh its nice.


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