La during repens, better known as Flor Celeste, is an evergreen shrub that grows to a maximum height of four meters, but can be pruned without problems towards the end of winter to achieve a more compact and / or smaller plant.
Has a rapid growth rate, so if you want to fill with a plant that is also easy to care for, we suggest you get a during repens. You will not regret it 😉.
Duranta repens characteristics
Our protagonist it is an evergreen shrub, usually with thorns, that grows 2 to 4m tall. It is originally from the United States, Brazil and Argentina. It has opposite, simple leaves, up to 7cm long by 3cm wide, with a sharp apex and a green color. The flowers are grouped in recurved or pendulous racemes up to 22cm long, and are blue, lilac or white. Once they are pollinated, the fruit begins to ripen, which will be a drupe similar in size to cherries that will contain 2 seeds.
It is a toxic plant: leaves and berries can kill children and pets. However, in Mexico, in the state of Hidalgo, cooking of the leaves is used to purify the blood.
How do you take care of yourself?
Duranta repens f. variegate
If you would like to know how to take care of it, follow our advice:
- Location: outdoors, in full sun or in semi-shade.
- Soil or substrate: it is not demanding, but it has to have good sewer system to avoid root rot.
- Irrigation: it should be watered three to four times a week in summer, and 2-3 / week the rest of the year.
- Planting or transplanting time: in spring.
- Subscriber: it is highly recommended to fertilize from spring to late summer with an organic fertilizer, such as guano.
- Multiplication: for seeds by soaking them for 5 days and then sowing them in pots with 70% black peat or mulch with 30% of perlite or vermiculite, or by cuttings in spring.
- Rusticity: supports weak frosts down to -2ºC.
What did you think of this plant?
Hi, I have the same plant, it has sticky white fungus, how can I cure it?
Hello Sonia.
It may be cottony mealybugs, not fungi (mushrooms are generally not sticky 😉 ).
You can remove them by hand, or with a brush soaked in a mixture of water and a little (a drop or that, very little) of dish soap. Another option is to apply diatomaceous earth, of which I leave you the link in case you want to buy it.
A greeting.