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Duranta erecta
Smooth shrub, growing to a height of 1-3 meters, with straggling and drooping branches. Leaves are small, obovate-elliptic, 3-6 cm long, with pointed or rounded tips and pointed base; the margins, entire or slightly toothed. Racemes are axillary with terminal panicles, spreading and slender, up to 12 cm long. Flowers are scentless, borne on one side of the rachis, white or lilac-blue with two violet stripes, about 1 cm long and 1 cm wide. Fruit is fleshy, ovoid, orange-yellow and 7-8 mm long.
Spotted on Jul 22, 2011
Submitted on Aug 5, 2011
5 Comments
Welcome..!!
Thank you Ashish :D
Ian..you have made these classic ornament flowers more popular now... :)
Thank you Alice, I wanted to show the flower's texture up close ^_^
At first I was thrown by the Macro picture, but the foliage indicates you do have what you say!