Botanical Name: Duranta erecta (D. repens)
Common Name: Sky flower, Golden dewdrop, Pigeon berry
Type of Plant: dicot: shrub
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape erect to widely spreading, rapidly growing up and out, forms an open, rather rangy canopy if unpruned, tends to grow in a somewhat clumping fashion
Height 10-25'
Spread 10-25'
Growth Rate rapid
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun to partial shade
Soil prefers moist loam, tolerates poorer soil
Hardiness some frost (zones 13, 16, 17-24) thrives in warm locations
 
Morphology:
Leaves pinnate, opposite-whorled, obovate-oblong-somewhat round, 1/2-2" long, bright green, entire to serrate margins
Flowers blue, funnel shaped, 1/2-3/4" long, loose, open racemes or panicles, April through August
Fruit yellow-gold berry, round, 1/4-1/2" broad
 
Propagation:
seed, semihardwood cuttings
 
Usage:
fast growing background shrub or large screen for the flower and fruit display, can be trained into espalier or tree form
 
Landscape Care:
Watering regular watering preferred; tolerates heavy watering in well drained soil
Fertilizing balanced in spring and summer
Pruning to shape desired, best if allowed to be open and loose
Pests/Diseases relatively free
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Brazil
Family: Verbenaceae

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