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Panicled Fuchsia
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Panicled Fuchsia
E Naturalized Photo: S. Jeevith
Common name: Panicled Fuchsia
Botanical name: Fuchsia paniculata    Family: Onagraceae (Evening primrose family)

Panicled Fuchsia is an evergreen shrub with a bushy habit. Its mid green leaves are lanceshaped to elliptic-ovate with entire margins, up to 15 cm long and 5 cm across. Its pink-purple flowers with lavender petals are up to 1.5 cm long and appear in branch-end panicles which are up to 15 cm long and 12 cm across. Its green-blue fruit are ellipsoid berries, up to 9 mm long and 7 mm across. Panicled Fuchsia is native to Central Mexico to Central America, naturalized in Sri Lanka and probably South India.

Identification credit: S. Jeevith Photographed in The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.

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