Dicotyledon

Onagraceae -- The Evening Primrose Family

Fuchsia -- The lady's eardrops genus

General Information
	Distribution	The genus Fuchsia with 107 species (119 taxa) is the third largest in the family after Epilobium and Oenothera. Nearly three-quarters of the species occur in the tropical Andes of South America, where the largest section Fuchsia is centered, but highly distinctive sections or groups also occur or are endemic in New Zealand (3 spp.) and the Society Islands (1 sp.); Central America and Mexico; Hispaniola; and the southern Andes.
	Habit	Erect to scandent shrubs, lianas, epiphytes, or sometimes trees to 12 m.
	Leaves	Leaves opposite and decussate, alternate or whorled, petiolate; blade margins serrulate to entire; stipules small, usually deciduous.
	Flowers	Flowers hermaphroditic (protogynous) or unisexual (and the plants gynodioecious, dioecious or subdioecious), actinomorphic, usually pendulous, axillary, solitary or in racemes, panicles, or involucrate inflorescences, pedicellate, floral tube well developed, cylindrical to obconical, deciduous (with sepals, petals, and stamens) after anthesis, with a nectary disk at base of the tube, and adnate to or mostly free from it, nectary unlobed or shallowly 4–8-lobed, sepals 4, reflexed or spreading singly in anthesis, usually various shades of red, occasionally green, deciduous after anthesis, petals 4, convolute or spreading at anthesis, sometimes minute or absent, various shades of purple, red, or orange, rarely lavender, green, or rose-pink, stamens 8, in 2 unequal series, sometimes in equal series, or the shorter whorl reflexed backwards into the floral tube, anthers basifixed, pollen yellow, rarely blue, shed singly, 2(3)-aperturate, ovary with 4 locules, stigma capitate, globose, or clavate, subentire or 4-lobed, the surface wet and non-papillate.
	Fruit	Fruit a fleshy berry, usually oblong-ellipsoid to subglobose, reddish purple to green or black.
	Seeds	Seeds few to ca. 500, in two to several rows in each locule, rarely in one row, embedded in pulp or rarely in otherwise hollow locule (sect. Procumbentes).
	Chromosomes	Chromosome numbers: n = 11, 22, 44; x = 11.