The Main Plant entry for Fuchsias (Fuchsia)

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General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Shrub
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Partial or Dappled Shade
Leaves:	Deciduous
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Time:	Summer Fall
Underground structures:	Taproot
Uses:	Suitable as Annual
Wildlife Attractant:	Butterflies Hummingbirds
Propagation: Other methods:	Cuttings: Stem

Common names

Lady's Eardrops

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Location: Columbus, OH Z5b
Date: 8-19-2003

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Location: Tampa, Florida
Date: 2023-03-03

Uploaded by GigiAdeniumPlumeria

Location: Desktop Photo
Date: 2014-08-17
No ID Fuchsia - 2 year-old tabletop Standard

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Location: At a local nursery
Date: 2023-05-26

Uploaded by Calif_Sue

Uploaded by Floridian

Location: Local nursery
Date: 2017-10-08

Uploaded by Calif_Sue

Location: Wairarapa, New Zealand
A Fuschia, but known only to us as "white skirt" species; any ID

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Location: Kenwood, CA
Date: 7/19/17
Fuschia bloom

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Location: My garden
Date: 8-21
Hardy fuschia

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Location: My garden
Date: 2021
Hardy fuchsias

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Location: Vero Beach, Florida
Date: 2022-02-27

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Location: Columbus, OH Z5b
Date: 8-28-2003

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Location: In my garden, Falls Church, VA
Date: 2017-05-30

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Location: Tampa, Florida
Date: 2022-04-08
My clearance rescue honeysuckle.

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Location: Sherman Gardens, Corona del Mar, Orange County, California
Date: 2018-02-27

Uploaded by CaliforniaPeach

Location: My garden
Date: 2016-11-10
This plant hybridized in my garden. The photo is of a trimerous f

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Location: Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand
Fuschia bloom; variety details unknown; we called it a Cigarette

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Location: Coastal San Diego County
Date: 2018-01-31

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Location: Conservatory, Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
Date: 2018-08-17
Fuchsia blooms sometimes bear stigmas on styles that are long com

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Location: Western Washington
Date: 2014-09-25

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Location: Vienna, VA
Date: 2012-07-04
Starter Bonsai

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Location: Lake Macquarie, N.S.W., Australia
Date: 2010-12-01

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Location: Beaumont greenery
Date: 2016-02-03

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Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2011-09-11

Uploaded by bonitin

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Location: Coastal San Diego County
Date: 2018-05-23

Uploaded by carlysuko

Location: Pot Collection
Date: 2014-09-09
Indoor Blooms

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Location: Conservatory, Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
Date: 2018-08-17
Fuchsia bud, covered with tiny cilia, each with a drop of some ex

Uploaded by arctangent

Location: Irvine, Ca
Date: 2000-12-09
Trailing Fuchsia

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Location: Ramsey, Isle of Man
Date: c. 1886
illustration from the 1886 Gardeners' Chronicle

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Location: Mason, New Hampshire
Date: 2019-05-27
photo credit: Robert Duval

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Location: My patio, Archer, FL
Date: 2019-05-31

Uploaded by carlissa904

Location: Maine
Date: 2015-05-29
Fuchsia Sunbeam Cherry

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Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-07-28

Uploaded by bonitin

Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-05-10
Young flowers.

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Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-05-07

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Location: My garden, Ghent, Belgium
Date: 2016-01-08

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Location: In my zone 8 garden
Date: 2016-06-07

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Location: Orange, CA
Date: 2012-08-05
Dappled shade

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Uploaded by admin

Uploaded by admin

Uploaded by bonitin

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Uploaded by MotherRaphaela

Location: Vander Veer Botanical Gardens - Davenport, Iowa
Date: 2011-07-02

Uploaded by jmorth

Location: Van der Veer Botanical garden, Davenport, Ia.
Date: 2011-07-02

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Location: Quad Cities Botanical Garden, Rock Island, Il.
Date: 2011-07-02

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Uploaded by chalyse

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Uploaded by tarev

Uploaded by Paul2032

Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2010-09-03

Uploaded by chelle

Location: Irvine, CA
Date: 2010-06-11
Fuchsia

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Comments:

Posted by Marilyn (Kentucky - Zone 6a) on May 20, 2013 4:26 AM concerning plant:

Taken from wikipedia's page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

"Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti) in about 1696-1697 by the French Minim monk and botanist, Charles Plumier during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the new genus after the renowned German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).

In horticultural usage, it is common to refer to fuchsias as either Upright, or Trailing, by their growth pattern, although some may be grown as either. Some more vigorous varieties of fuchsia can be trained as hedges (F magellanica, F. magellanica 'Riccartonii') and do particularly well in coastal areas. A popular practice is to train fuchsias as standards; this can be done with the faster-growing varieties.

In the United States, members of the American Fuchsia Society brought back approximately 50 plants to California from a trip to Europe in 1930. Half of these were cultivated at the University of California Botanical Garden in Berkeley and the other half at the Berkeley Horticultural Nursery, a local business. Many American hybrids were the descendants of this 1930 group."

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No ID Fuchsia by MotherRaphaela	Aug 18, 2014 10:15 AM	0
possible ID by janinilulu	Dec 16, 2020 7:43 PM	1
Fuchsia genus by purpleinopp	Jun 3, 2021 7:56 PM	1
Is it a Fuchsia? by tofitropic	Apr 9, 2022 7:54 AM	5

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