Fuchsia facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Fuchsia
Fuchsia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Onagraceae
Genus:	Fuchsia L.

Flower of Fuchsia

Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants. They are often purplish-red, which is where we get the colour fuchsia.

Fuchsia belongs to the Onagraceae family of flowering plants. Fuchsia has 110 species. It consists mostly of shrubs or small trees.

The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) about 1696–1697. The discoverer was the French monk and botanist, Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the new genus after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).

Images for kids

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  Fuchsia sp. in Japan

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  Fuchsia hybrid

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  Fuchsia regia

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  Selection of cultivated fuchsias at BBC Gardeners' World in 2011

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  'Alice Hoffman'

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  Fuchsia with blossom opened

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  Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566)

See also

In Spanish: Fuchsia para niños