lantanan.
/lanˈtɑːnə/, U.S. /lænˈtænə/ [modern Latin ( Linnæus Hortus Cliffortianus (1738) 349), < an earlier Latin name for Viburnum, to which its foliage bears a slight resemblance.] An evergreen herb or shrub of the genus so called, belonging to the family Verbenaceæ, often a native of subtropical America, and bearing heads of red, yellow, or white flowers.
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1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 103 There grows on this island, many curious shrubs, particularly a beautiful species of Lantana.
1882 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 24 Fritz Müller noticed a lantana in South America which changes colour as its flowering advances.
1893 Daily News 26 July 7/4 That showy flower, the Lantana.
1917 Nature 20 Sept. 57/2 Two introduced shrubs, Guava and Lantana, now occupy extensive areas [of Hawaii], and have become great pests.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 776/4 The scene is the Tweed River district of New South Wales, where banana plantations compete with the lantana creeper for a foothold.
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) Prol. 3 The loveliness of the place is a faint, sweet corruption; old, grey, wooden wharves..heaps of coal overgrown with wild convolvulus and lantana.
1961 Amateur Gardening 21 Oct. (Suppl.) 31/1 Most of the lantanas form small shrub-like plants with roundish heads of small flowers.
1969 New Scientist 20 Feb. 385/1 The world's worst weeds..include purple nut-sedge, Bermuda grass..cogon grass, and lantana.
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