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Onagraceae
Fuchsia
Fuchsia
Confiding love, taste, amiability.
- Family
- Onagraceae
- Genus
- Fuchsia
- Native to
- Central and South America, New Zealand
- Bloom season
- Summer, Fall
- Type
- shrub or trailing perennial
- Height
- 30–250 cm
- Sunlight
- Partial shade
- Soil
- Rich, moist, well-drained
- Water
- Regular
- Hardiness
- 8–11
- Lifespan
- Perennial
Did you know
- Fuchsias are named after Leonhart Fuchs, a 16th-century German botanist and physician — and the color 'fuchsia' is named after the flower.
- Many fuchsia species are native to the cloud forests of South America at elevations of 1,500–3,000 m.
- All fuchsia berries are edible and faintly sweet — Indigenous peoples have eaten them for centuries.
- Fuchsia flowers hang downward like delicate ballerinas in tutus — they're sometimes called 'Lady's Eardrop.'
- Fuchsia magellanica, the hardy fuchsia, is the only fuchsia native to Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America — surviving cold and wind.