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Duranta
erecta L.
Synonym : Duranta plumieri Jacq.
Family
: Verbenaceae
Local Names
: Golden dew drop, Pigeon
Berry, Duranta
Flowering
and fruiting period:
July – March
Distribution: Originally from
America; now widespread throughout the world
Habitat: Grown as hedge
plant, also getting naturalised
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic: No
Uses: Ornamental, hedge
plant, the plant is used in the treatment of fevers, skin itches, and insect repellent
Key
Characters:
Shrubs; branches often spiny, terete.
Leaves, elliptic-ovate or obovate, margins entire. Flowers in simple or panicled racemes,
terminal and axillary. Calyx tubular,
fleshy, angled, persistent. Corolla blue
or violet, with or without two purplish stripes on the tube. Stamens 4, didynamous. Ovary globular, 8-locular, 8-ovuled. Drupes yellow or orangeish - yellow, globose,
completely enclosed by the fruiting-calyx.
