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Fuchsia boliviana
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Family:
ONAGRACEAE
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Citation: Fuchsia boliviana Carriere, Rev. Hort. 48: 150. 1876.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Bolivian Fuchsia
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Description:
Shrub to 4 m; branches scandent, densely pubescent. Leaves ovate-oblong, to 20 x 10 cm, chartaceous; base rounded, margin finely glandular-toothed, apex acute, pubescent above, canescent below, nerves often reddish below; petiole to 9 cm. Corymbs terminal, to 30 cm, drooping; bracts foliaceous, ovate-acute, to 2 x 0.7 cm, glandular along margins; pedicel 1.5 cm. Hypanthium 6 cm long, dark red, broadening towards the mouth; lobes 4, lanceolate, 2 x 0.5 cm, reflexed. Petals 4, oblong, 1.5 x 0.5 cm, red. Stamens 8, hardly exserted; filaments alternately 1.3 and 1 cm. Ovary to 1.5 cm long, pubescent, 4-celled; ovules many, on axile placentae; style 7 cm, pubescent; stigma 4-lobed. Berry terete, 2 x 0.4 cm; stalk to 3 cm; seeds numerous.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-March
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Introduced as garden plant, also running wild in the High Ranges
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Distribution:
Native of Soutth America
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Red
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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