Five color plum (scientific name: lantanacamara) and Lantana, which Hakkas call mianbi Gonghua. Originally, it was mainly distributed in South America and West India. It is an evergreen shrub of Lantana. Generally, the flowering period is around mid April, late April to mid February of the next year. However, due to the influence of climate and temperature, flowering can be seen almost all the year round, which can be said to be the most popular plants. There are often multicolored changes in a cluster of inflorescences, so it's also known as five color plum and five color flower. At the same time, the branches and leaves contain special pungent smell, so Ma Yingdan also has the nicknames of smelly grass, smelly Golden Phoenix and so on. It was introduced by the Dutch in 1645 in Taiwan. Because of its strong fecundity, it is now a common alien species in the flat field of Taiwan.
There are many aliases of five color plum, such as Lantana, shandadan, red Hydrangea, coral ball (notes of South Vietnam), stinking Golden Phoenix, Ruyi flower, faint flower (records of medicine collection in Lingnan), seven variable flower (records of economic plants in North China), Ruyi grass (records of plants in Guangzhou), turquoise, stinking peony, insecticidal flower (records of drugs in Nanning City), maoshenhua (folk herbs in South Fujian), stinking cold wind（《 Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine records), Tianlan grass (Hunan medicine records), smelly grass (Guangzhou army's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), five color flowers, five thunder arrows, wind through the wall (Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine), wild eye vegetables (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual), colorful flowers, honghuaci, Pojie flowers (Fujian traditional Chinese Medicine), pig excrement flowers (Chaozhou).
It refers to the early five colors on glaze drawn with red, green, yellow, blue, purple and other colored materials containing lead. In Yuan Dynasty, it was fired on the basis of red, yellow and green colors of Cizhou kiln, with few products.
Small leaves are green, small leaves are red, big flowers and small leaves are black. Usually used for patterned flower beds.
Colorful flowers are also the name of a song.
But when we search for five colored flowers, we will see five colored plum.
