What is Fuchsia?
{{italic title}} {{taxobox |name = ''Fuchsia'' |image = Standish's Seedling Fuchsia- Paxton.jpg |image_caption = ''Fuchsia'' |regnum = [[Plant]]ae |unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]] |unranked_classis = [[Eudicots]] |unranked_subclassis = [[Rosids]] |ordo = [[Myrtales]] |familia = [[Onagraceae]] |genus = '''''Fuchsia''''' |genus_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |author=Clive A. Stace |title=New Flora of the British Isles |url=https://archive.org/details/newflorabritishi00stac |edition=3rd |year=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-70772-5 |chapter=''Fuchsia'' L.&nbsp;– fuchsias |page=[https://archive.org/details/newflorabritishi00stac/page/365 365]}}</ref>}} [[File:DoubleFuchsias wb.jpg|thumb|Flower of Fuchsia]] '''''Fuchsia''''' is a [[genus]] of flowering [[plant]]s. They are often [[Purple|purplish]]-[[red]], which is where we get the colour '' [[Magenta#Tones of fuchsia color comparison chart|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).<ref>Charles Plumier. ''Nova Plantarum Americanum Genera'', Paris, 1703.</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{commonscat|Fuchsia}} {{wiktionary}} [[Category:Myrtales]]