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Duranta erecta
Also called Golden Dew Drop, Pigeon Berry, Sky Flower, Golden Dewdrop, Pigeonberry, Forget Me Not Tree, Skyflower
In Singapore: White Sky Flower, Golden Dew Drop, Pigeon Berry, Sky Flower, Golden Dew-Drop, Lilac-flowered Golden Dewdrop, Brazilian Sky Flower, Kachang Puteh, Forget-Me-Not, 金露花, 假连翘, 小本苦林盘, Golden Duranta, Variegated Sky Flower, Variegated Golden Dew Drop, Variegated Honey Drops, Variegated Pigeon Berry (Grown in Singapore)
Duranta erecta is a sprawling shrub, sometimes a small tree, grown for its lavender flower clusters and yellow berries. Give it full sun and warmth, and prune to keep it compact.
Duranta erecta is a species of flowering shrub in the verbena family Verbenaceae, native from Mexico to South America and the Caribbean. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant in tropical and subtropical gardens throughout the world, and has become naturalized in many places. Common names include golden dewdrop, pigeon berry, and skyflower.
Golden dewdrop is widely grown as an ornamental plant throughout tropical and warm subtropical regions. Its showy flowers and fruit make it a desirable addition to gardens, and the blossoms attract butterflies and hummingbirds. There are a wide variety of cultivars available, including 'Alba', 'Aurea', 'Aussie Gold', 'Gold Mound', 'Geisha Girl', 'Sapphire Showers', and 'Variegata'.
Duranta erecta is native to the Americas, from Mexico and the Caribbean south to Brazil and Argentina. There is some debate about whether the plant is also native to the southern United States, in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona and California, or is an introduced species there, at an altitude of 40–1100 meters above sea level.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Duranta erecta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
