Fuchsia fulgens gesneriana

Fuchsia fulgens gesneriana

Could be a hybrid between F. fulgens and F. splendens

(Native to Guatemala, discovered in 1836)

Can be 10 feet tall...

*Fulgens gesneriana.

Hybrid of F. fulgens x F. splendens. Rather lax growth with the most beautifuI soft velvety texture foliage and long flowers. Tube and sepals scarlet-orange, sepals are scarlet with prominent tips dull green. Corolla dark orange with pale pink filaments and pistil clearly visible. The larger foliage is sage green with red flush on young leaves, purple midrib and veins 5 in by 2 in and serrulate edged, pubescent (hairy). The long, tubular narrow flowers are 7 in long. Lax upright bush, very vigorous and easy. Tuberous root system and a good subject for the show bench, requires about 2 or 3 stops to produce specimen plant even in first year, allowing at least 12 weeks from the last stop to flowering potential. In subsequent years will finish up in 8 in or 9 in pot requiring free rootrun.

Assumed to be native to Guatemala and attributed to being discovered by Barbet in 1836 on the slopes of the Santa Maria volcano. Other sources, however, quote the parentage as F. fulgens x F. splendens, making it a hybrid.