What is the role and function of Ma Yingdan?

The functions and functions of Lantana are: garden function and medicinal use.

Garden 1

Lantana is a beautiful flower and an excellent flowering shrub. The flowering period is long, colorful and colorful. Flowers are yellow or pink at first, then orange or orange red, and finally red. Gardens all over China are often used for viewing.

Lantana has a long flowering period and strong adaptability. It is usually planted in the garden, covered on the ground and used as a hedge. It can also be decorated in the lawn and planted next to stones. It can also be used for flower bed arrangement and so on. Potted plants in the north are used for indoor decoration or flower bed placement.

2. Medicine

Branches, leaves and immature fruits are poisonous. The whole plant can be used as medicine. Roots, leaves and flowers have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving stagnation and relieving pain, expelling wind and relieving itching; Can be used for treating malaria, pulmonary tuberculosis, tuberculosis of cervical lymph nodes, mumps, stomachache, rheumatic osteodynia, etc. (Flora of Hainan).

Extended data:

Lantana, also known as "five-colored plum", has very beautiful flowers, such as lavender, fuchsia, pink, orange and dark yellow ... A plant with colorful flowers is very beautiful and enchanting. However, when people can't help but marvel at its charming flowers, few people know that its blooming is also based on killing local indigenous plants.

Lantana plants can transmit chemical information, which will make it difficult for local native plants to adapt and become a powerful weapon to crowd out and kill other species.

At the same time, it is barren-tolerant and has a strong ability to capture light resources. It can quickly form a thick vegetation layer to reduce the light of the lower vegetation, prevent the growth of other plants under the mulch, and eliminate the lower plants, which is one of the reasons why nothing grows in the lower layer of Lantana camara.

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