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Duranta erecta L.

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Family : VERBENACEAE

Synonym : Duranta plumieri Jacq.

Common Names : Golden Dew Drop, Pigeon berry, Duranta

Flowering Period : July – March

Distribution : Originally from America; now widespread throughout the world

Habitat : Grown as hedge plant, also getting naturalised

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 orange - yellow, globose, completely enclosed by the fruiting-calyx.