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Duranta erecta L.
Synonym
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Duranta erecta var. alba
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Family
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Verbenaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam
- Duranta
English - Golden Dewdrop
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Flowering and fruiting period
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July-March
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Distribution
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Originally from America; now widespread throughout the
world
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown as hedge plant, also getting naturalised
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Ornamental
purpose
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Shrubs; branches often spiny,
terete. Leaves elliptic-ovate or obovate, base cuneate, margins entire or
coarsely serrate above the middle, apex acute, glabrous; petiole to 1 cm
long. Flowers in simple or panicled racemes, terminal and axillary; pedicel
2-5 mm long. Calyx tubular, fleshy, angled, persistent. Corolla blue or
violet, with or without two purplish stripes on the tube; tube densely puberulent outside above the calyx, limb densely
puberulent on both surface, especially towards the throat within. Stamens 4,
didynamous. Ovary globular, 8-locular, 8-ovuled. Drupes yellow or orangish –
yellow, globose, completely enclosed by the fruiting-calyx.
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