Fuchsia fulgens
Fuchsia fulgens is a plant of the genus Fuchsia native to Mexico and Central America.
Description
Shrubby, upright growth and thickened, tuberous roots.- Height and Spread: Reaches heights of 1.5 m or more. Spreads as wide as 80 cm.
- Stems: Woody
- Leaves: Opposite, ovate or heart-shaped leaves are pale or sage green, paler green or flushed red beneath. Length ranges from 9–23 cm, or typically 17x12cm with fine red teeth tipped with glands.
- Flowers: Short, terminal racemes of pendant, single flowers.
- *Tube: Tubes range in color from pink to dull red or scarlet.
- *Sepals: Sepals are pale red, or pale yellow at the base, and tinged yellow-green at the margins.
- *Corolla: Bright red in color.
- Fruit: Oblong to ellipsoid in shape and deep purple in color.
Cultivation
- Hardiness: Half-hardy. Minimum temperature of 5 °C.