Fuchsia hybrida
Common Fuchsia
10
Usually shrubby, sometimes slightly pendulous
Larger flowers than either species and having a pink, red, white or yellow corolla and a crimson calyx
'Carmelita' - double white flowers
'Gartenmeister Bonstedt' - long, slender flowers and green and bronzy-red leaves
'Little Beauty' - petals lavender-blue and pink sepals
'Trophie' - double white to violet-blue flowers.
'Muriel' and 'San Francisco', as well as
F. magellanica
var.
gracilis
, are trailing plants, excellent for hanging baskets.
Crosses between
F. fulgens
x
F. magellanica
Named for a German physician,
Leonhart Fuchs
(1501-1566).
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