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Duranta mutisii, commonly known as espino in Spanish, is a shrub of the family Verbenaceae that is found in South America.
It is distributed in South America at an altitude of 1800 to 3000 meters above sea level, in the following countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
It serves as food for a great diversity of native fauna; its flowers and fruits serve as food for insects and birds, its leaves are food of diverse amount of larvae, for example the larvae of Rothschildia aricia that produce silk. The plant is also used to counteract deforestation, use in fences and also as ornamental in parks.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Duranta mutisii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
