PlantFiles Pictures: Golden Dew Drop, Sky Flower, Pigeon Berry 'Sapphire Showers' (Duranta erecta), 0 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Hi Cynni, I think I'm automatically watching the thread since I uploaded the pic.

I've never seen butterflies on mine, but the blooms smell like vanilla to me.

This is definitely a large bush or multi-trunked shrub. In fact, it sends up branches from nodes below the soil. I've had mine for several years and have had to prune it a few times. It keeps getting bigger and wider. I decided to give it a standard look by triming off all the lower branches so that it would look like a tree, but I have to keep on top of the new branches as they sprout and rub them out. Here's an older picture from 2007 that shows more of it. It was quite a bit shorter then. I think it grows about six feet a year if I'm not mistaken.