Fuchsia
×hybrida s.lat.

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3. Fuchsia L. - Documentation of reports (not mapped).

Linnaeus, Sp. pl.: 1191 (1753).

Literature. Munz 1943.

Variation. Fuchsias have been in cultivation in Europe since the late 1780s. A very great number of cultivars now exist; most of them are hybrids, and the name F. ×hybrida Voss is used to cover them. Hybridization has involved F. magellanica Lam. (D Hækfuchsia, F siroverenpisara, N magellantåre, S scharlakansfuchsia; Chile and Argentina), F. splendens Zucc. (Mexico to Costa Rica), F. fulgens DC. (Mexico) and perhaps still other species. – In Norden fuchsias are mainly grown as short-lived pot plants, but F. magellanica is more or less winter hardy in D and southern S.
Specimens collected in the wild are usually throwouts; some are in a poor condition and cannot be determined with certainty. All identifiable material was referred to F. ×hybrida. F. magellanica differs in having smaller flowers (hypanthium to 12 mm, sepals 15–25 × 3–4 mm) and shorter petioles (3–10 mm); it has been published from S Sk Vallkärra (Tyler 2007), but the material is not convincing.

Fuchsia ×hybrida Voss

Voss, Vilm. Blumengärtn. ed. 3, 1: 332 (1894). – Described from cultivated material.
D Fuchsia. F (pallero)verenpisara. N edeltåre. S fuchsia.
Up to 1 m tall shrub (but outside cultivation usually very short-lived). Stem erect to erectopatent or pendent. Leaves opposite; petiole 10–20 mm; blade ovate to ± narrowly lanceolate, acute, serrate.
Flowers single or in small groups in the leaf axils, pendent. Hypanthium 10–20 mm. Sepals 4, usually brightly coloured, reflexed or spreading, acute, 25–30 × 8–11 mm. Petals 4, 1–2 cm. Stamens 8, usually strongly exserted; pollen grains shed singly. Style strongly exserted. Fruit a 4-locular, many-seeded berry.
Distribution and habitat. Grown for ornament; sometimes on rubbish tips. D LFM Birket 1995, Sjæ Gentofte 1961. S Sk several records 1998–2006, Bl Mörrum 2003, Klm Ljungby 2006, SmI Ljungby 2000, Nrk Sköllersta 1990 and Upl Täby 2002.
Garden origin. – The name is here used in a wide sense to cover cultivated and escaping forms of apparent hybrid origin which cannot be classified with F. magellanica.

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