FUCHSIA
Fuchsia
Plum. ex L., Sp. Pl. 1191. 1753.
Shrubs, climbers or trees, deciduous or evergreen. Leaves alternate, opposite or whorled, simple; stipules small, deciduous. Bisexual, plants. Flowers solitary in axils of leaves or in terminal or axillary racemes or panicles, generally showy, pendulous and long-pedicelled, sometimes erect; mostly bisexual, sometimes unisexual, gynodioecious or dioecious. Hypanthium extended beyond ovary into a floral tube; floral tube usually colored, deciduous in fruit. Calyx lobes (Sepals) 4, usually coloured, deciduous after anthesis. Petals 4, minute or none, convolute or spreading, deciduous after anthesis. Stamens 8, in 2 series, unequal, the episepalous exceeding epipetalous; filaments more or less filiform; anthers linear to oblong. Ovary inferior, 4-loculed; style elongate; stigma capitate or clavate. Fruit a small berry, 5-25 mm long, rounded to oblong, dark reddish green, deep red or deep purple, 4-locular, containing many small seeds. Seeds 6-700.
107 species
Fuchsia sp. [Fuchsia magellanica
Lam. Encycl. 2: 564. 1788.
OR
F. regia
(Vande ex Vell) Munz, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 25: 13. 1943.
Erect to generally scandent or climbing shrub, branchlets wine purple, glabrous to puberulent. Leaves opposite, stipulate, firmly membranous to coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, apex acute to acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire to gland-serrate, secondary veins 4-10 per side midrib; petiole long. Flowers usually solitary in upper leaf axils; pedicels pendulous, usually wine red. Ovary oblong; floral tube cylindrical-fusiform, glabrous. Sepals 4, connate at base and free above, lobes spreading to recurved or reflexed at anthesis; floral tube and sepals red or rose. Petals 4, purple, obovate, much smaller and broader than sepals. Stamens 8, inserted at base of petals and rim of floral tube; filaments red-purple; anthers exserted, oblong, purplish. Style glabrous, reaching to the level of anthers; stigma clavate, exserted beyond anthers. Berry oblong or ellipsoid, dark purple when ripe.
Common Names: Hummingbird fuchsia, Hardy Fuchsia, Chilco
