Five color plum, also known as Nanking cherry blossom, smelly grass and seven sisters, is an upright or semi trailing shrub of Verbenaceae. The flower period is from May to October, and most of the small flowers are densely integrated into hemispherical flower heads. The flower color is variable, and it turns yellow or pink at the beginning, then orange or orange red, and finally red. There are red and yellow flowers in the same inflorescence, so there are five colored plum, seven variable flowers and other names. Its flowers have the inducement to attract butterflies. When the flowers open, many butterflies will come.
The whole plant is short hairy and has strong smell. Leaves opposite, ovate or heart-shaped. In the warm southern provinces, it can bloom all the year round. Although its flowers are small and less than 1 cm in diameter, they are densely clustered by many small flowers, forming a capitulum with a diameter of 4-5 cm. The inflorescence is dense. Corolla tubular, 4 stamens. There are many varieties of Lantana camara, among which yellow, red, orange, purple and white are common. Some varieties are mixed with orange and red during flowering. Yellow and purple flowers are widely used as ground cover ornamental.
Perennial twining herbs, all glabrous, with tuberous roots when old. The stem is long and thin, with fine ribs and sometimes small verrucous protuberances. The leaves are palmately 5-deeply or completely divided, the lobes are ovate lanceolate, ovate or elliptic, the middle lobes are large, 4-5cm long and 2-2.5cm wide, the lobes on both sides are slightly small, the top is gradually sharp or blunt, with small short tip, the base is wedge-shaped and gradually narrow, the whole or irregular microwave shape, the base 1 pair of lobes is usually re divided; the petiole is 2-8cm long, and the base has small palmately 5-lobed denture leaves (leaves with axillary short branches Film).
The five clawed Golden Dragon is a perennial herb of the order plumbanthus, the family Convolvulaceae and the genus sweet potato. It is a perennial winding herb with strong climbing ability. Its leaves are similar to palms and have 5 to 7 cracks. From its characteristics and shape, it is called the five clawed Golden Dragon.
Five color plum is called "five color plum" because of the flower color, and five clawed Golden Dragon is called "five clawed Golden Dragon" because the flower shape is similar to the palm shape, so there is a big gap between the two names.
Five color plum can be used as medicine, but it contains toxicity. Five claw Golden Dragon can also be used as medicine, but it's forbidden for people with deficiency cold. Moreover, the wild species of the five clawed Golden Dragon is an invasive vegetation, which needs to be dealt with and is a kind of harmful plant. The wild variety of five color plum is not only not a harmful variety, but also beautiful and loved by flower friends.
