The beauty of Gletang flower (Tridax procumbens)

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while walking around the plantation I found wild plants growing near the rice fields, I started to look carefully and I discovered the beauty of these plants, one of the beauties that they have is very beautiful flowers with different color variations, as you can see in the picture This flower has white petals while the flower crown is golden yellow and is equipped with small petals.

This plant has the common name Gletang and is also known scientifically as "Tridax procumbens", this plant is very easy to find blooming in spring in tropical areas, every time this flower blooms it invites many insects and butterflies to get the nectar of the gletang flower, if If you go to an agricultural environment, you will be amazed when the gletang flowers bloom en masse, all the roadsides, plantations and mini forests will look like heaven because of the amazing colors of the gletang flowers.

Gletang (Tridax procumbens) is a type of plant, mostly found wild as a weed, a member of the Asteraceae family. Originating from tropical America, gletang is usually found in dry, sunny places. Other names include: katumpang (Sd.); gletangan, cemondelan, gobesan, londotan, orang-aring, prepes, sangga Langit, randha mopol, sidawala, srunen (Jw.); tar-sentaran, taroto (Md.).[1] As well as coat buttons, tridax daisy (Eng.); cadillo chisaca (Spain), and herbe caille (France). Wikipedia

I found gletang flowers growing on the side of the road when I saw the farm road, I was amazed when I first saw this flower which was moving slowly due to the gentle breeze, apart from having amazing flower colors, gletang flowers also have a very fragrant aroma like the aroma of herbal medicine. is one of the traditional medicines, thank you very much for visiting my blog and reading it, see you in the next post & have a nice day;)