The fuschia, so named by Plumier (a French botanist) in honour of the botanist Leonhard Fuchs, is a genus of plants of the natural order Onagraceae, characterized by entire, usually opposite leaves, pendent flowers, a funnel-shaped, brightly coloured, quadripartite, deciduous calyx, 4 petals, alternating with the calycine segments, 8, rarely 10, exserted stamens, a long filiform style, an inferior ovary, and fruit, a fleshy ovoid many-seeded berry. Just looking at a fuschia blossom, you can see that it is a very complex plant.
This lovely fuschia started out about 12 inches all the way around the bowl it is in, and it just kept growing all summer long. It's in a very shady area of the yard, and it seemed to be the perfect environment for it.
I've never grown such a large fuschia before, and I'm still enjoying its beauty in mid-September.
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