Hello,
This week, I am researching the plant locally known as “lantana”.
After much research online, I was able to narrow down to the types of lantanas
that are living in Arizona. Not really sure if I should say ‘living in Arizona’
or ‘native to Arizona’. It is still not clear to me if these plants were
brought to Arizona or if they are native. The USDA has lantanas as both, native
AND introduced to Arizona. Hopefully by next week I will have more information on how they came
to be in this state. So far, I have discovered three types of lantanas in Arizona:
Lantana Achyrandthifolia, Lantana Camara, and Lantana Urticoides. A couple of
articles are mentioning Lantanas as having medicinal properties. This is
contradicting to my prior beliefs since I was under the impression that
lantanas were toxic. How can a plant be toxic AND have medicinal properties? That
is something I plan on finding out. See you back here real soon.
A thousand thanks:
· https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/java/stateSearch
·
Joloba, M., Kirimuhuzya, C., Odyek, O., &
Waako, P. (2009, March) The anti-mycobacterial activity of Lantana camara a plant
traditionally used to treat symptoms of tuberculosis in South-western Uganda. African
Health Sciences, US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2932521/#:~:text=Use%20of%20lantana%20extracts%20in,abdominal%20viscera%2C%20is%20also%20reported.
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"The genus Lantana (Verbenaceae) as described by Linnaeus in 1753 contained seven species, six from South America and one from Ethiopia [1]. Lantana (from the Latin lento, to bend) probably derives from the ancient Latin name of the genus Viburnum which it resembles a little in foliage and inflorescence. Lantana is mostly native to subtropical and tropical America, but a few taxa are indigenous to tropical Asia and Africa. It now occurs in approximately 50 countries where several species are cultivated under hundreds of cultivar names. "
ReplyDeletehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367326X00002021?via%3Dihub
More on it as toxic
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0041010188901961