What is fuchsia?
Q: What is fuchsia?
A: Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants.
Q: What is the color fuchsia derived from?
A: The color fuchsia is often purplish-red, which is where we get the name of the plant.
Q: Which family of flowering plants does fuchsia belong to?
A: Fuchsia belongs to the Onagraceae family of flowering plants.
Q: How many species does fuchsia have?
A: Fuchsia has 110 species.
Q: Is fuchsia a tree or a shrub?
A: Fuchsia consists mostly of shrubs or small trees.
Q: Who discovered the first Fuchsia plant?
A: The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola by the French monk and botanist, Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles.
Q: After whom was the new genus Fuchsia named?
A: The new genus Fuchsia was named after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) by Charles Plumier.
