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Lantana is a genus of flowering plants, family Verbenaceae, comprising roughly 150 species of herbaceous plants and shrubs 0.5 to 2 meters tall, native to tropical regions of the Americas but now widely introduced elsewhere, particularly across the Australian-Pacific region and parts of India. Species are known for aromatic flower clusters called umbels, mixing red, orange, yellow or blue and white florets, with flowers typically changing color as they mature so that a single inflorescence carries two or three colors at once.

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