Fuchsia

Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants. They are often purplish-red, which is where we get the colour fuchsia.

Flower of Fuchsia

Fuchsia belongs to the Onagraceae family of flowering plants. Fuchsia has 110 species. It consists mostly of shrubs or small trees.

The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) about 1696–1697. The discoverer was the French monk and botanist, Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the new genus after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).^[2]

Fuchsia Media

Fuchsia flower
My flowers make peculiar elegant shapes, not only able to serve as pot plants decorating balconies, windowsills or studies, but able to hang on burglar meshes or gallery frames as ornaments. My flower language is "believing in Love" and "vehement heart".
Photo of Fuchsia corymbiflora (syn. Fuchsia boliviana) at the San Francisco Botanical Garden
This image shows a plant of the species Fuchsia regia.
Selection of cultivated fuchsias at BBC Gardeners' World in 2011
Hardy Fuchsia - Alice Hoffman * * A hardy fuchsia which produces masses of pink and white flowers, especially with all the wet weather we have had this year.
Fuchsia with blossom opened
Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566)

↑ Clive A. Stace (2010). "Fuchsia L. – fuchsias". New Flora of the British Isles (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 365. ISBN 978-0-521-70772-5.
↑ Charles Plumier. Nova Plantarum Americanum Genera, Paris, 1703.