Lantana camara, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 122

1. L. camara L. , Sp. Pl. 627 (1753).

Up to T 5 m, with a strong, unpleasant smell. Young twigs 4-angled, sometimes prickly, pubescent. Leaves 5-8 cm, ovate, serrate, rugose, more or less hairy, petiolate. Inflorescences axillary; peduncles about equalling the subtending leaves. Corolla yellow or orange, usually changing to red; tube 7-8 mm; limb 4-5 mm in diameter. Drupe globose, black, distinctly longer than calyx. Naturalized in Açores, and perhaps in parts of the Mediterranean region, where it is frequently cultivated for ornament. [Az?Hs Si.] (Tropical and warm-temperate America; widely naturalized in the tropics and subtropics.)