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.

Fuchsia is named for Leonhart Fuchs, a renaissance botanist and professor at Tübingen. Fulgens means 'shining' or 'glistening', often in reference to red flowers.