Fuchsia

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

Fuchsia
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Fuchsia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Onagraceae
Genus:	Fuchsia L.

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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).

Fuchsia Media

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  Volcano hummingbird feeding from a Fuschia flower, in Costa Rica.

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  Fuchsia flower

• Fuchsia hybrida - flower view 01.jpg

  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

• Fuchsia regia - blossom (aka).jpg

  This image shows a plant of the species Fuchsia regia.

• Cultivated Fucshias at BBC Gardeners' World.jpg

  Selection of cultivated fuchsias at BBC Gardeners' World in 2011

• Hardy Fuchsia - Alice Hoffman - geograph.org.uk - 960183.jpg

  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.

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  Fuchsia with blossom opened

• Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566)