- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Duranta erecta
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Verbenaceae
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Golden dewdrop, Neelakantha.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- More or less throughout the year.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native of South America.
- 💡 Status
- Least Concern.
Description: Erect Shrub with or without spines. Leaves opposite or whorled, ovate-elliptic or oval or obovate. Flowers blue, lilac, violet, purple or white, in terminal or axillary panicles. Fruit globose drupe, orange when ripe.
Uses: Often cultivated as a hedge plant.