Duranta

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Duranta in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Duranta (after Castor Durantes, physician in Rome and botanist, died about 1590). Verbenaceae. Tropical American woody plants, some of which are cultivated outdoors in Florida and California, and in a few northern greenhouses. Shrubs or trees, glabrous or woolly, often armed with axillary spines: lvs. opposite or in whorls, entire or toothed: racemes long and terminal or short and axillary; fls. small, short-pedicelled in the axis of a small bract; corolla-limb of 5 spreading oblique or equal lobes, the tube usually curved; stamens 4, didynamous; calyx enlarging and inclosing the fr.; stigma 4-lobed: fr. an 8-seeded juicy drupe.—Eight or 10 species, Mex., W. Indies, S. Amer., one reaching Key West. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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