Duranta mutisii, commonly known as espino in Spanish, is a shrub of the family Verbenaceae that is found in South America.

Its leaves are simple opposite, with an entire border, smooth, leathery, with an acute apex and cuneate base, without stipules and without exudate.

The flowers are light blue, tubular, grouped in axillary inflorescences in the form of a cluster.

[2] It is distributed in South America at an altitude of 1800 to 3000 meters above sea level, in the following countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

[1] The plant is also used to counteract deforestation, use in fences and also as ornamental in parks.