Lantana Camara: In the 1800s, Lantana Camara was imported to decorate colonial gardens: Today it has become one of India’s most widespread invasive plants
Lantana Camara (Photo: Canva) Two centuries ago, a British gardener probably admired its clustered pink-and-yellow blooms and thought it would look lovely around a garden hedge.Nobody could have guessed that this ornamental shrub would go on to outcompete some of India’s oldest forest cover on the ground, choke the undergrowth that herbivores depend on, and…