{"id":1410658,"date":"2011-03-02T05:06:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T05:06:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:52:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:22:27","slug":"fuchsia-boliviana","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/fuchsia-boliviana\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuchsia boliviana (Cultivated)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fuchsia<\/i> boliviana<\/i> Carri\u00e8re<\/font><\/a>, Rev. Hort. 48: 150 1876<\/em>. (Syn: Fuchsia<\/i> boliviana<\/i> var. luxurians<\/i> I.M.Johnst.<\/font><\/a>; Fuchsia<\/i> boliviana<\/i> f. puberulenta<\/i> Munz<\/font><\/a>; Fuchsia<\/i> cuspidata<\/i> Fawc. & Rendle<\/font><\/a>; Fuchsia<\/i> lenneana<\/i> Warcz.<\/font><\/a> [Invalid]);<\/div>\n
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Vine Fuchsia, Peruvian Berrybush, Fuchsia boliviana;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n
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S-Peru, Bolivia (Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz, Tarija), Argentina
\n(Catamarca, Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman), Costa Rica (I), Ecuador (I), Guatemala (I),
\nJamaica (I), El Salvador (I), Colombia (I), Java (I), Sri Lanka (I),<\/font> La Runion
\n(I), Azores (I) (Sao Miguel Isl. (I), Terceira (I), Graciosa (I), Sao Jorge (I),
\nPico (I)), Madeira (I) (Madeira Isl. (I)), Canary Isl. (I) (Gran Canaria (I)),
\nHawaii (I) (Kauai (I) (Koke`e) (I)), Mexico (I), Venezuela (I), USA (I)
\n(California (I))<\/font> as per Catalogue of life<\/a>;<\/div>\n
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<\/em>Fuchsia boliviana<\/b> is a species of Fuchsia<\/font><\/a><\/i> native to southern <\/font>Peru<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>Bolivia<\/font><\/a> and northern <\/font>Argentina<\/font><\/a>.[1]<\/font><\/a><\/sup><\/font> <\/div>\n

It is a medium evergreen shrub, growing to 2\u20134 m tall, rarely to 6 m, with a spreading, open habit. It has large, hairy mid-green leaves and red <\/font>petioles<\/font><\/a>. It has large drooping <\/font>corymbs<\/font><\/a> up to 20 cm long borne in late summer and autumn of scarlet red flowers with the individual flowers 3\u20137 cm long. A white-flowering form exists named ‘Alba’, with a white tube and scarlet petals.[2]<\/font><\/a><\/sup> After flowering it bears small red-purple, edible fruit 10\u201326 mm long.[3]<\/font><\/a><\/sup>[4]<\/font><\/a><\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
Fuchsia boliviana<\/i> is widely grown in shade or part-shade in cooler, <\/font>subtropical<\/font><\/a> climates. Plants require protection from direct sun and temperatures exceeding 40 \u00b0C. The plants are hardy to about -4 \u00b0C for short periods. Propagation is by seed or cuttings.[3]<\/font><\/a><\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
(From Wikipedia<\/font><\/a>\u00a0on 26.7.14)<\/div>\n
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Can you please ID this small bushy plant<\/font> with pinkish flowers with long corolla tubes.<\/font> Photo was taken in Sri Lanka in March 2014.<\/font><\/p>\n
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May be some passiflora<\/em>?<\/p>\n

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It seemed to be a Fuchsia Species to me.<\/div>\n
On searching, looks like Bolivian Fuchsia<\/strong>, Fuchsia boliviana<\/em> alba.<\/p>\n
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<\/strong>Catalogue of life<\/font><\/a><\/font>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>
\n\u00a0GRIN<\/a>\u00a0 strange wonderful things<\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>
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Fuchsia boliviana Carri\u00e8re, Rev. Hort. 48: 150 1876. (Syn: Fuchsia boliviana var. luxurians I.M.Johnst.; Fuchsia boliviana f. puberulenta Munz; Fuchsia cuspidata Fawc. & Rendle; Fuchsia lenneana Warcz. [Invalid]); \u00a0 Vine Fuchsia, Peruvian Berrybush, Fuchsia boliviana;\u00a0 S-Peru, Bolivia (Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz, Tarija), Argentina (Catamarca, Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman), Costa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[8382],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1410658","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-fuchsia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1410658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1410658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1410658"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1410658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}