Duranta erecta L.

ഡുറാന്റ

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
Habit
:
Shrub
Uses
:

Ornamental, hedge plant, the plant is used in the treatment of fevers, skin itches, and insect repellent.

അലങ്കാരച്ചെടി. കീട ഉപദ്രവത്തെ ചെറുക്കുന്നു. തൊലിപ്പുറത്തെ  ചൊറിച്ചിൽ പനി ചികിത്സിക്കായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു.
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.