ABSTRACT
Still, there is no doubt what these names meant because there are no native European Lantana (in the modern sense of Verbenaceae). Therefore, it is believed that Virgil applied the name lenta viburna to one or more of the European Viburnum (Adoxaceae). One of the common names for the genus is “arrow-wood.” Arrow shafts made of V. lantana accompanied the Neolithic “Iceman” found in the Alps (Mabberley 1997).
