Malandan: The world only loves your beauty.

Walking towards the Botanical Garden, Louisiana Iris is in full bloom in a large area near the pond, and it is in flowering period. They bloom desperately, ignoring my visit Twisted flowers are not beautiful! I ignored them and went straight over.

In the flower bed next to me, colorful flowers are nice to me, and I am busy getting together.

The hydrangea is small and exquisite, and a group of flowers is particularly eye-catching. Six flowers were counted, all of which were flower beds. Looking around, you can see blue drill points in the golden sunshine. Hand-grabbed incense was also squeezed in, and a green plant came out.

Their enthusiasm attracted bees and butterflies, which was very lively. But to my surprise, lantana camara, a plant with all kinds of small flowers, has also settled in it, cutting flowers and making fine shapes, which attracts people's attention.

Lantana, scattered all over the country, I am familiar with it. Originated in Africa, it is named Ma Yingdan because its flowers look like red tassels on ancient horseheads. But its more popular name is five-color plum, and its image is increasing.

Lin Qingxuan said that its flowers are beautiful, just like scattered little stars. Indeed, Lantana is beautiful in all colors, such as yellow, red and pink.

Another feature of these flowers is that they bloom from the outside to the inside, and when they sprout, they are bright green, yellow or pink at first, then orange and then red.

Constantly changing color is a prominent symbol of lantana, so people gave it a name of five-color plum.

Why change color?

Some researchers point out that different colors can attract different insects and help them pollinate, fertilize and reproduce. The survival strategy of lantana camara is to constantly change colors, attract many kinds of insects and improve the probability of pollination.

This strategy is undoubtedly welcomed by insects, and seems to cater to the human psychology of loving beauty, which is not difficult to see from a long list of praise nicknames.

Five-color flower, seven-color flower, five-color hydrangea, color-changing grass, ruyi grass ......

Being crowned with good names is not enough to show people's love, but also placed in the courtyard, rockery, living room, planted in flower beds and the Eight Immortals.

You know, as early as 1645, Lantana was introduced and planted as an ornamental flower in Taiwan Province Province.

But this is my surprise. In my mind, lantana has nothing to do with flower beds. They are too common, even too annoying. Ditches, corners, ridges and fields all exist like nightmares, and no one wants to invite them home.

The children in the village avoided everything they saw.

Lantana gives off an extremely unpleasant smell, which few people can bear, so Lu Yu spat and threw a "shit".

People in our village call it excrement flower, which is a very humble plant and difficult to be elegant.

Interestingly, another string of nicknames proves how unpopular Lantana is.

Stinky Peony, Stinky Berberis, Stinky Flowers, Shit Flowers, Stinky Jinfeng ......

At this moment, people seem to forget their admiration for it, forget its extraordinary beauty and throw all the derogatory words at it.

This is really notorious "smelly". More notoriously, Lantana camara was listed among the top 100 invasive species in the world and the second batch of invasive species in China.

On the other side of lantana's extraordinary beauty, everything can be forgiven. Whoever grows savagely has strong enough viability.

Special smells are biochemical weapons that kill other species. Dense branches and leaves blocked the light and inhibited the growth of lower plants. The barbs and short thorns of stems and poisonous plants keep herbivores away.

According to statistics, one lantana can produce 12000 seeds per year; Another study showed that the seed germination rate of lantana camara was high, and 75% could germinate after 7 weeks of sowing. In addition, it blooms all year round and has the ability of sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction, which enables it to expand rapidly.

Faced with such a powerful existence, I can't equate the innocent girl-like lantana in the flower bed, as if I saw two completely unrelated species.

Love its bright colors all the year round, spit out its smelly barbarism, and the two extremes have evolved into two kinds of ecology.

Ma Yingdan, it turns out that the world only loves your beauty.

But the world is so complicated as a kaleidoscope, some people can't dodge durian, and some people love durian.

For lantana, you will meet people who really appreciate it. Not only love its gorgeous and refined, praise its exuberant vitality, but also appreciate its "unique taste, which is either fragrant or fragrant."

Take good care of it, even if it seems completely unnecessary.