Fuchsia dependens

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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Onagraceae

Annual or perennial herbs, or shrubs , rarely trees to 30 m tall, often with epidermal oil cells , usually with internal phloem . Leaves simple , spirally arranged , opposite, or occasionally whorled , entire or toothed to pinnatifid ; stipules present and usually caducous , or absent. Flowers perfect and hermaphroditic or occasionally unisexual , actinomorphic or zygomorphic, (2-) 4(-7) -merous, axillary , in leafy spikes or racemes or solitary, or occasionally in panicles, all but Ludwigia with distinct floral tube , nectariferous within. Sepals green or colored , valvate . Petals as many as sepals or rarely absent, variously colored, imbricate or convolute and occasionally clawed. Stamens as many as sepals in one series or 2 Ã as many as sepals in 2 series [in Lopezia Cavanilles reduced to 2 or 1 plus 1 sterile staminode]; anthers versatile or basifixed , dithecal , sometimes cross-partitioned, opening by longitudinal slits; pollen grains almost always united by viscin threads, shed as monads , tetrads , or polyads . Ovary inferior, with as many carpels and locules as sepals, septa sometimes thin or absent at maturity; placentation axile or parietal , ovules 1 to many per locule, in 1 or several rows or clustered, anatropous , bitegmic; style 1; stigma with as many lobes as sepals or clavate to globose . Fruit a loculicidal capsule or indehiscent nut or berry. Seeds small, smooth or variously sculptured , sometimes with a coma [or wing], with straight oily embryo, endosperm lacking.

Seventeen genera and ca. 650 species: widespread in temperate and subtropical areas, but best represented in W North America; six genera (two introduced ), 64 species (11 endemic, 11 introduced), and five natural hybrids (two endemic) in China.

Onagraceae are a well-defined, monophyletic family in the order Myrtales, with a sister relationship to Lythraceae. Within the order Myrtales, the Onagraceae are distinguished by a number of features including (1) a distinctive 4-nucleate embryo sac; (2) abundant raphides in vegetative cells ; (3) paracrystalline beaded pollen ektexine; and (4) pollen with viscin threads.

Some species of Oenothera are grown for the oil in their seeds, which contains gamma linolenic acid (GLA), used for medicinal purposes. Several species of Onagraceae also are cultivated in China for their horticultural value, including species of Fuchsia Linnaeus (generally distinguished by having large, tubular , red or orange flowers and fleshy berries ) and Clarkia Pursh (distinguished by having stigmas with commissural lobes with dry, unicellular papillae, and dry, elongate capsules similar to those of Epilobium but lacking comas on the seeds) . The most commonly cultivated Fuchsia is F. Ãhybrida Hort. and the related F. magellanica Lamarck in F. sect. Quelusia (Vandelli) Candolle from South America; F. triphylla Linnaeus, in F. sect. Fuchsia, from Hispaniola, is known from only one gathering in Fujian. Similarly, Clarkia amoena (Lehmann) A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride is widely cultivated in China, whereas C. pulchella Pursh is known from only one gathering in Xizang; both species are native to W North America. There are no naturalized species of either Clarkia or Fuchsia in China.[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Hook. Publication : Ic . Pl. t. 65

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Fuchsia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 184 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

F. andrei (Andre's Fuchsia) · F. arborescens (Tree Fuchsia) · F. boliviana (Bolivian Fuchsia) · F. boliviana 'Alba' (Bolivian Fuchsia) · F. campos-portoi (Fuchsia) · F. coccinea (Fuchsia) · F. coriacifolia (Smallscale Snapper) · F. denticulata 'Blush Fandent' (Fuchsia) · F. denticulata 'Strybing's Peach' (Fuchsia) · F. encliandra (Fuchsia) · F. encliandra encliandra (Fuchsia) · F. excorticata (Kotukutuku) · F. fulgens (Fuchsia Fulgens) · F. glazioviana (Fuchsia) · F. hybrida (Hybrid Fuchsia) · F. hybrida 'Double Otto' (Double Otto Fuchsia) · F. hybrida 'Island Sunset' (Island Sunset Fuchsia) · F. hybrida 'Santa Claus' (Santa Claus Fuchsia) · F. loxensis (Pena Pena) · F. 'Lycioides' (Box-Thorn Fuchsia) · F. magellanica (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. magellanica Lam. 'Aurea' (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. magellanica var. discolor (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. magellanica var. gracilis 'Variegata' (Variegated Magellan Fuchsia) · F. magellanica var. molinae 'Maiden's Blush' (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. magellanica var. molinae 'Sharpitor' (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. magellanica 'Hawkshead' (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. magellanica 'Riccartonii' (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. magellanica 'Sharpitor Aurea' (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. microphylla (Small-Leaf Fuchsia) · F. paniculata (Shrubby Fuchsia) · F. procumbens (Creeping) · F. procumbens 'Variegata' (Creeping Fuchsia) · F. 'Pumila' (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. ravenii (Fuchsia) · F. regia (Fuchsia) · F. splendens (Fuchsia) · F. splendens x arborescens 'First Success' (Fuchsia) · F. thymifolia (Encliandra Fuchsia) · F. triphylla (Honeysuckle Fuchsia) · F. triphylla L. 'Koralle' (Koralle Honeysuckle Fuchsia) · F. triphylla 'Firecracker' (Honeysuckle Fuchsia) · F. triphylla 'Mary' (Honeysuckle Fuchsia) · F. triphylla 'Professor Henkel' (Honeysuckle Fuchsia) · F. vulcanica (Volcan's Fuchsia) · F. × bacillaris (Dwarf Fuchsia) · F. 'Alice Hoffman' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Alison Patricia' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Angels Earrings Cascading' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Angels Earrings Dainty' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Angels Earrings Snowfire' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Annabel' (Bush Fuchsia) · F. 'Ann Marie McManus' (Fuchsia 'ann Marie Mcmanus') · F. 'Applause' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Archie Owen' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Army Nurse' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Auenland' (Fuchsia 'auenland') · F. 'Autumnale' (Autumn Fuchsia) · F. 'Baby Chang' (Hybrid Fuchsia) · F. 'Ballerina Blau' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Beacon Rosa' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Bella Rosella' (Hybrid) · F. 'Beryl Clarke' (Fuchsia 'beryl Clarke') · F. 'Bicentennial' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Billy Green' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Bilton' (Fuchsia 'bilton') · F. 'Bluette' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Blue Eyes' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Blue Mirage' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Brutus' (Single Fuchsia) · F. 'Carmel Blue' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Celia Smedley' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Chantelle Garcia' (Fuchsia 'chantelle Garcia') · F. 'Charlie Dimmock' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Checkerboard' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Chillerton Beauty' (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. 'Circe' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Clair De Lune' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Connor's Cascade' (Fuchsia 'connor's Cascade') · F. 'Daniel Pfaller' (Fuchsia 'daniel Pfaller') · F. 'Dark Eyes' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Dimples' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Display' (Single Fuchsia) · F. 'Diva Rose Blue' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Dollar Princess' (Dollar Princess Double Fuchsia) · F. 'Double Otto' (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. 'Elena' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Eva Boerg' (Semi-Double Fuchsia) · F. 'Exmoor Paths' (Fuchsia 'exmoor Paths') · F. 'Exmoor Pearl' (Fuchsia 'exmoor Pearl') · F. 'Exmoor Rose' (Fuchsia 'exmoor Rose') · F. 'Exmoor Silver' (Fuchsia 'exmoor Silver') · F. 'First Love' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Fluffy Ruffles' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Fuseedia red and white' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Garden News' (Hardy Fuchsia) · F. 'Gartenmeister Bonstedt' (Gartenmeister Bonstedt Triphylla Fuchsia) · F. 'Gloria Golding' (Fuchsia 'gloria Golding') · F. 'Goetzimpro' (Fuchsia 'goetzimpro') · F. 'Goetzlanda' (Fuchsia 'goetzlanda')

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Further Reading

• A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conife London;Longmans, Green, 1901. url , p. 456.
• Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 4 1905-1907 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., url p. 361.
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 17 1890 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url p. 213, p. 284.
• Companion to the Botanical magazine: being a journal, containing such interesting botanical information as does not come within the prescribed limits of the magazine; with occasional figures /by W.J. Hooker. 2 1836-1837 London: Printed by E. Conchman. .. for the proprietor, S. Curtis, 1835-1836 [i.e., 1835-1837] url p. 378.
• Contributions from the Herbarium of Columbia College. New York: Columbia College, 1886-1896. url p. 219.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1941 Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] url p. 551.
• Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. New York: The Garden and forest publishing co., 1888-97. url p. 414, p. 423.
• Hortus Veitchii: a history of the rise and progress of the nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and sons, together with an account of the botanical collectors and hybridists employed by them and a list of the most remark by James H. Veitch; with fifty illustrations. London: J. Veitch & sons, 1906. url p. 260, p. 528.
• Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 25 1924 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., 1900- url p. 216.
• Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 3 1893 Durham, N.C.: Published for the Club by the Seeman Printery, 1889- url p. 33.
• Nicholson, G. The illustrated dictionary of gardening: a practical and scientific encyclopdia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists /edited by George Nicholson; assisted by J.W.H. Trail. .. and J. Garrett. .. 9 1884 London: L.U. Gill, [1884]-88. url p. 425.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 49.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 644.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url , , p. 162, p. 166, p. 166, p. 170, p. 287, p. 323, p. 33, p. 372, p. 381, p. 386, p. 396, p. 415, p. 417, p. 420, p. 437, p. 458, p. 459, p. 508, p. 509, p. 517, p. 563, p. 585, p. 70, p. 76.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url , p. 246, p. 710.
• The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs. Boston: Hovey and Co., 1837- url p. 176, p. 264.
• The ladies' companion to the flower-garden: being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies, with full directions for their culture / by Mrs. Loudon. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. url p. 125.
• Chen Chiajui, Lu Shangzhi & Li Yibin. 2000. Onagraceae. In: Chen Chiajui, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 53(2): 27-133.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 27, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 24, 2007:

• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15659722
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:612512-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 612512-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1353828

Footnotes

1. Jiarui Chen, Peter C. Hoch, Peter H. Raven, David E. Boufford & Warren L. Wagner "Onagraceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 274, 290, 400. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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