Kultakastepensas – Duranta erecta

Branches are usually drooping or trailing, sometimes spiny, pubescent when young. Petiole is 0.3-0.8 cm, pubescent. Leaves are opposite or in whorls of three. Leaf blade is ovate, 2-6 x 1.5-3.5 cm, papery, base cuneate, margin entire or distally toothed, green, yellow or variegated. Inflorescence is a terminal or axillary, drooping raceme, up to 3-15 cm long. Calyx is tubular, about 3-7 mm long, angular, with five minute teeth at the apex. Corolla is light blue, violet, white or purple, tube ca. 7 mm long, limb subequally 5-lobed with lobes 3.5-4.5 mm long, pubescent on both sides. Fruit is a roundish drupe, ca. 5 mm, shiny, orange-yellow, glabrous, enclosed by persistent calyx.