Fuchsia splendens is a plant of the genus Fuchsia native to Central America.F. splendens is variable in tube color and length across it range. There are no taxa currently recognized below the rank of species. While often encountered in written works and on the internet, names such as Fuchsia splendens var. cordifolia are not valid.
Mexico to Costa Rica.
Shrubs that reach 0.5-2.5 meters in height, terrestrial or occasionally epiphytic. Leaves 3.5-13 à0.8âÂÂ4 cm, opposite or rarely ternate, ovate to chordate, base rounded to chordate, apex acute to acuminate; Petiole 1.2âÂÂ8 cm. Bisexual flowers, axillary, pendulous armpits in the distal armpits; Pedicels 35âÂÂ75 mm; Ovary narrowly cylindrical; Floral tube 20-64 à4âÂÂ9 mm, cylindrical, laterally compressed in the base around the nectar; Sepals 8-20 à5âÂÂ8 mm, lanceolate; Tube and sepals pink to red; Petals 6-12 à4âÂÂ8 mm, green with reddish base, ovate, subacuminate apex; Filaments 10âÂÂ20 mm and 6âÂÂ14 mm, greenish. Berries 20-40 à5âÂÂ8 mm, elongated, purplish dark when ripe. It has a chromosome number of 2n = 22
Fuchsia is named for Leonhart Fuchs [1501-66], a renaissance physician, botanist and professor at the University of Tübingen. Splendens can be taken to variously mean shining, gleaming, glistening, glittering, bright, or brilliant.