Duranta
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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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.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963