Pests > Pests Entities > Weeds > Duranta repens, identification, FSM
Pests Pests Entities Weeds Duranta repens, identification, FSM
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| May 2005. The plant illustrated is often grown as a hedge in Pohnpei, Federated states of Micronesia. It is a perennial, and also a very good host to white flies, Aleurotrachelus trachoides.
It was identifed as Duranta erecta (Verbenaceae), formally known a D. repens.
There was also a suggestion that it was Plumbago auriculata, but that has alternate leaves, rather than opposite ones, and the fruit is enclosed within narrow cylindrical, glandular-sticky calyx, rather than having “golden dewdrop” fruits (the common name). The blue colour is nearly identical, however.
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