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Fuchsia (/ ˈ f juː ʃ ə / FEW-shə) is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. Almost 110 species of Fuchsia are recognized; the vast majority are native to South America, but a few occur north through Central America to Mexico, and also several from New Zealand to Tahiti.
The way that the dense foliage droops from the hanging branches gives the tree a willowy appearance. Notsung is unusual in producing its flowers and fruit, not from the tips of its branches like most flowering trees, but from its trunk, exhibiting what is known in botany as cauliflory.
Fuchsia procumbens is trioecious (i.e. subdioecious). Hermaphrodite, male, and female plants occur. Both male and female plants have two different types, which differ in the length of the style. [9] Unisexual populations are thought to be able to persevere due to the vegetative reproduction by rooting along the creeping stems. [4]
Fuchsia triphylla are small shrub plants. They can grow as high as two or three feet. The leaves are simple, elliptical, and quite large. The petiole insertion is whorled and characterized with a red or maroon tint on the underside of the leaves. The flowers of Fuchsia triphylla are long and tubular. Flowers are generally a red-orange or red ...
Flowers solitary or pairs, pendulous, and flower tubes are red, cylindrical around 5-16 x 3-7 mm wide, sometimes hairy outside. The stamens are red. The ovary is oblong, 5-12 x 2-4 mm wide. The sepals are 15-45 mm long, fused at the base red or rose color. The petals are violet-fuchsia color, obovate 10-25 x 8-16 mm wide.
Fuchsia microphylla, also known as small leaf fuchsia and small-leaved fuchsia, is a flowering shrub in the family Onagraceae. [1] The specific epithet ( microphylla ) was named for the plant's small ( micro ) leaves ( phylla ).
Fuchsia hatschbachii are erect to scandent shrubs, ranging from 1-3 meters tall, or up to 5 meters when climbing on trees. Leaves are narrowly lance-ovate, 3.0-7.5(-11.0) x 0.8-2.5(-3.0) cm, acuminate at the tip and rounded at the base, dark green above and pale below, with small trichomes 0.8-1 mm in length at the bottom of the lower midvein on some plants.
Fuchsia magellanica - flower. This sub-shrub with long, arcuate stems can grow to 1–3 metres (3.3–9.8 ft) in height and width in frost-free climates, and 4–5 feet (1.2–1.5 m) where colder.Its leaves grow in whorls of 3-4 per node or sometimes opposite, are ovate to lanceolate, 2.5-6 cm long, and 1-2 cm wide, with serrate margins and petioles 0.5-1 cm long.