Winter Fuchsias
by Shirley Mangini
Title
Winter Fuchsias
Artist
Shirley Mangini
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Photograph - Photograph Digital Art
Description
FUCHSIA, named in honor of the botanist Leonhard Fuchs, a genus of plants of the natural order Onagraceae, characterized by entire, usually opposite leaves, pendent flowers, a funnel shaped, brightly colored petals.
They are natives of Central and South America - occurring in the interior of forests or in damp and shady mountainous situations. The various species differ in size as well as in other colors. First known under the name of Fuchsia triphylla, in 1757 by Burmann. The first species of fuchsia cultivated in England, where it was long confined to the greenhouse, was brought from South America by Captain Firth in 1788 and placed in Kew Gardens. Of this species Mr Lee, a nurseryman at Hammersmith, soon afterwards obtained an example, and procured from it by means of cuttings several hundred plants, which he sold at a guinea each. It was not until about that varieties of interest began to make their appearance.
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November 29th, 2014
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