Fuchsia
Fuchsia magellanica · Family: Onagraceae
- Light
- partial shade
- Watering
- high
- Hardy to
- -5 °C
- Soil
- fertile
Where it grows on Tenerife
With watering: North, 300–1000 m · North coast
Indicative conditions, reviewed by Marianna.
Photos
Origin and history
Native to southern Chile and Argentina. Charles Plumier named the genus after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. The hardiest of the fuchsias.
Written for this site, pending Marianna's review.
From Wikipedia
Fuchsia magellanica – commonly known as the hummingbird fuchsia, hardy fuchsia or chilco (from Mapudungun: chillko "watery") – is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family Onagraceae, native to the lower Southern Cone of southern South America.
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