•Scientific name: Lantana camara.

•Family:Family: Verbenaceae

•Common name:West Indian Lantana,Raimuniya,Spanish flag, big-sage,wild-sage, red-sage, white-sage,umbelanterna, putus,etc...

•Plant type: Shrub Vine / climber Woody, perennial flowering plants.

•Fruit:Berry-like drupe.

🌸 Lantana, genus of more than 150 shrubs native to tropical America and Africa and belonging to the verbena family (Verbenaceae), order Lamiales.

~Common lantana (L. camara), growing to 3 metres (10 feet) tall, is a weed in tropical America, but elsewhere it is much used as a garden plant.
~It blooms almost continuously with yellow, orange, pink, and white flower heads in various colour combinations.
~The aromatic leaves are rough and oval. Clusters of poisonous black berries follow the flowers.

•Edible Uses:-The aromatic leaves are used to make a tea.The ripe black fruits are eaten in handfuls, especially by children as a snack. The sweet tasting drupaceous, fleshy, ovoid fruits are purple or black when fully ripe and about 5 mm long. Some reports mention the toxicity of the unripe fruits.

#Medical uses:
The leaves and seeds are toxic. The plant extracts has been used in folk medicine for the treatment of cancers, chicken pox, measles, asthma, ulcers, swellings, eczema, tumors, high blood pressure, bilious fevers, catarrhal infections, tetanus, rheumatism and malaria.
•Studies conducted in India have found that Lantana leaves can display antimicrobial, fungicidal and insecticidal properties.

L. camara has also been used in traditional herbal medicines for treating a variety of ailments, including cancer, skin itches, leprosy, chicken pox, measles, asthma and ulcers.

#L. camara extract has shown to reduce gastric ulcer development in rats. Extracts from the plant have also been used in Brazil to treat respiratory infections.