Golden dewdrop
தொரந்தோ எரெக்டாമാണിക്ക്യചെമ്പഴുക്ക
Duranta erecta L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.6 m
- wide
- 3.0 m
Verbenaceae
Also called Skyflower, Pigeon Berry, Forget-Me-Not-Tree, Golden Dew Drop, Golden dewdrops
Formerly Duranta angustifolia, Duranta baumgartenii, Duranta baumgartii, Duranta brachypoda, and 14 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to N. South America, S. Florida to CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 4.3 m to 5.0 mRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 10–15 ft; UF/IFAS 18–18 ft
- Spread
- 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 4–10 ft; UF/IFAS 10–15 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Purple, blue, whiteRead from NC State Extension, UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension blue, pink, purple, white; UF/IFAS blue, purple, white; Wikipedia blue, purple
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Coralillo, Garbancillo, Ramo de novia
- root
- k'an pok'ool che', mogakabanna
- Chinese
- 金露花, 小本苦林盤, 臺灣連翹
- French
- Vanillier de Cayenne
- Chinese (China)
- 假连翘, 金露花
- Finnish
- kultakastepensas
- Czech
- duranta vzpřímená
- Japanese
- タイワンレンギョウ, 台湾連翹
- Indonesian
- Sinyo Nakal
- Portuguese
- Violeteira
- Afrikaans
- Vergeet-my-nie-boom
- Thai
- เทียนหยด
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension Plant Toolbox, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Duranta erecta (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.