Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, pubescent 18-42 (to 50)mm long, divergent or arching from the stems and pendent only in the distal third
- Ovary : oblong-ellipsoid, 5-9mm long x 2.5-3mm wide
- Tube color : red to dark pink
- Tube shape : fusiform, sub glabrous to puberulent outside, puberulent inside
- Tube dimensions : 5-10mm long x 2.5-3mm wide at the base, 3.5-4.5mm wide in the middle and 3-4mm wide at the top
- Sepal color upper : red to dark pink
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : oblong-lanceolate, lightly pubescent
- Sepal tips : acute, spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 15-24mm long x connate at the base for 4-7mm, free lobes 3.5-6mm wide
- Corolla opening color : violet
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : obovate
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 7-10mm long x 6-8 (to 9)mm wide
- Nectary : smooth, 2-3mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red-purple, 18-38mm x 13-30mm long
- Anthers : purplish, 22.5mm long x about 1.5mm wide,
- Pistil :
- Style : puberulent, red,
- Stigma : clavate, 1.5-2mm long
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : solitary in upper leaf axils
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : ellipsoid, 14-17mm long x 12mm wide, purple
- Seed : oblong-triangular, 1.4-1.9mm long x 0.8-1.2mm wide
- Habit : erect shrubs, or scandent to seven meters high, often with extensive underground stems
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0,5-1,5 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : flowering is throughout the year, mainly from November to March, natural hybridization with F. regia ssp. regia is known to occur
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1789
- Botanist : Dryander
- Authors : Dryander 1789. Berry 1989
- Original publication : Hort. Kew. 2: 8 1789
- Habitat : occurring in rocky, open campos near the summits of several of the highest mountains in Minas GeraisSerra da Piedade, Serra da Caraça, Serra do Itacolomi, and Pico do Itambé
- Elevation : 1400-2000
- Native country : Brazil
- Synonyms : Fuchsia elegans, Salisbury 1791, Fuchsia pendula, Salisbury 1796, Nahusia coccinea, (Dryander) Schneevoogt 1792, Fuchsia montana, Cambessedes 1830
- Gametic chromosome number n = 22
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : mostly ternate, sometimes opposite or in fours, membranous or rarely subcoriaceous, petioles short and stout, about 1 mm thick, 1 to 3 mm long, occasionally longer on basal leaves, usually densely pilose or hirsute, stipules narrowly lanceolate, 0.8 to 1.4 mm long, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : generally dull, light green, sometimes strongly purpleflushed, subglabrous to puberulent
- Foliage color lower side : paler below, sometimes strongly purpleflushed, subglabrous to puberulent, but generally densely pilose along the basal third of the midvein
- Leaf dimensions : 15-55mm long x 7-25mm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly ovate to ovate
- Leaf margin : serrulate or occasionally subentire
- Leaf tip : acute to subacuminate
- Leaf base : subcordate or sometimes rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 4 to 6 per side
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth is puberulent to densely pilose, older stems, 5 to 20 mm thick, with exfoliating bark