Other scientific names
Duranta plumieri Jacq. 

Common names
Duranta (Tag.)
Golden dew drop (Engl.)

Botany
Smooth shrub, growing toi a height of 1-3 meters, with straggling and drooping branches. Leaves are small, obovate-elliptic, 3-6 cm long, with pointed or rounded tips and pointed base; the margins, entire or slightly toothed. Racemes are axillary with terminal panicles, spreading and slender, up to 12 cm long. Flowers are scentless, borne on one side of the rachis, white or lilac-blue with two violet stripes, about 1 cm long and 1 cm wide. Fruit is fleshy, ovoid, orange-yellow and 7-8 mm long.

Distribution
Native of tropical America. A common hedge and fence screen in Baguio.

Constituents and characteristics
Fruit is slightly poisonous with alkaloid type reactions. Deaths have been reported from ingestion.
Fruit contains a saponin.
The bark contains a glucosidal principal; the leaves yield a saponin substance.

Parts used
Leaves and fruits.

Uses
Folkloric
Fruit has been used as febrifuge.
Flowers are believed to be stimulant.
Infusion of leaves and juice of fruit are diuretic.

Availability
Cultivated for ornamental purposes.