Fuchsia Flower Scientific Name. Genus name honors Leonhart Fuchs 1501-1566 German physician and herbalist professor at Tubingen who published in 1542 and 1543 a herbal with unusually beautiful woodcuts of plants. Most gardeners use its dwarf species as an annuity but harsh varieties also grow in hot environments in which wild habit is developed.
Most of them have been developed from two species. It grows 2 feet tall and wide. There are hundreds of named varieties of fuchsias the beautiful plants with pendulous blossoms that bloom heavily from spring to fall.
Slightly acidic to neutral 60 to 70.
Fuchsia denticulata Ruiz. Fuchsia ˈfjuːʃə FEW-shə is a vivid purplish red color named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant which was named by a French botanist Charles Plumier after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. Mar 02 2021 The Fuchsia genus comprises more than 100 species of woody shrubs and small trees. Evergreen shrub also grown as an annual trailing container plant.