Duranta serratifolia Fragrant The berries gather in tight

The berries gather in tight whorls around the stem at every leaf node

slender members of the perennial hibiscus tribe

Long before the nursery trade

Whorls of narrow leaves clothe a tidy

As with the species

Duranta serratifolia Fragrant The berries gather in tightDuranta serratifolia, the tala blanco of northern Argentina, is a South American cousin of the familiar golden dewdrop and belongs, like all Duranta, to the verbena family. The species epithet serratifolia means saw toothed leaf, for the finely serrated margins that separate this plant from the smoother leaved dewdrops. In the wild the shrub grows through the dry forests and thorn scrub of the Argentine northwest, where the common name, roughly white