Fuchsia canescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Onagraceae. It is a shrub with membranous leaves, red to orange flowers, and green to purple berries. The species is native to Colombia, and was described in 1845.
Taxonomy Fuchsia canescens was described by George Bentham in 1845. It is part of the section Fuchsia, and forms part of a species group with Fuchsia dependens, Fuchsia hirtella, Fuchsia hartwegii, Fuchsia crassistipula, and Fuchsia cinerea.
Philip Alexander Munz treated Fuchsia canescens as a synonym of Fuchsia corollata.
Distribution Fuchsia canescens is native to the wet tropical biome of south Colombia (Cauca, Huila, and Nariño). It grows in cloud forests, at elevations of .
Fuchsia canescens occurs sympatrically with Fuchsia corollata and Fuchsia caucana.
Description Fuchsia canescens is a shrub that grows high. The young branches are ridged, reddish, and thick. The older branches have tan bark.
The leaves are firmly membranous, elliptical to obovate, long, and wide. The leaf stems are dull purple, and long.
The flowers may be arranged in racemes. The flower stems are long. The floral tubes are dull scarlet or orange red, thick, spongy, narrowly funnel-shaped, long, wide at the base, and wide at the rim. The petals are dark red, trowel-shaped, long, wide, and have slightly undulating margins. The sepals are triangular, long, wide, and white or greenish at the tips.
The fruit is an ellipsoid, green to purple berry, measuring long, and thick. The seeds are around long, and wide. The plant has eleven pairs of chromosomes.
Fuchsia canescens may hybridise with Fuchsia caucana.
Uses Fuchsia canescens is used for food and medicine.
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