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Duranta

15 March 2025
Duranta erecta
85% certain
- Family
- Verbenaceae
- Origin
- Tropical America
- Bloom season
- Warm months
- Colors
- blue, violet, white
- Habitat
- Tropical hedges, courtyards, and sunny banks
- Symbolism
- Welcome, and a hedge that keeps talking
Small two-lipped lilac florets in loose clusters on a glossy shrub that later carries strings of gold berries.
Care. Give full sun and a trim after a flush; frost nips it and it usually returns from the base.
A note. The gold berries give it the name golden dewdrop, though birds eat them more readily than people should.
Or perhaps
- Jacaranda — 12%
- Plumbago — 3%
Notes on the photograph
Copied from the marks left by the camera.
- Captured
- Mar 15, 2025, 1:30 PM
- Camera
- Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Lens
- iPhone 14 Pro Max back triple camera 6.86mm f/1.78
- Focal length
- 6.9mm
- Aperture
- f/1.8
- Shutter
- 1/154s
- ISO
- 80
- Dimensions
- 4032 × 3024
Where it was found
The place is taken from the photograph's own memory, if any.
18.4400° N, 69.9636° W
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