Duranta erecta L.
| Family: | VERBENACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Golden Dew Drop | ||||
| Synonym: | Duranta plumieri Jacq. | ||||
| Common Name: | Pigeon berry, Duranta | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting 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 Characteristics: | 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. | ||||