Duranta Erecta
By: arlene
Tags: Close to Nature, Duranta Erecta, flowering shrub, flowers, Flowers and Blooms, nature, Photography, Tanay
Category: flowers, Flowers and Blooms, photography
After all these years, I finally learned the name of these lovely blooms. Mr. Wiki says “Duranta erecta is a species of the flowering shrub in the verbena family Verbenaceae, native from Mexico to South America and the Caribbean. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant” in tropical gardens throughout the world. It is commonly known as golden dewdrop, pigeon berry, and skyflower. I have a Golden Duranta in my garden, trim it religiously into a rounded shape but I have never seen it bloom. I am sure it belongs to the same family.
What it is that makes you capture that one particular scene, embedding it in your memory? What it is that makes you admire those lovely blooms and flowers all around? For some, it might just be a small shoot of flower on the wayside but for the photographer’s eye, it is a beautiful creation of colors . And freezing those moments in a photograph, clicking the shutter in a blink are moments worth remembering. Color me green, color me orange, it would not matter, what is important is capturing the beauty of something in a photograph.
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