Trees and Shrubs
A division of the Camden Park catalogues that is not clearly defined. In broad terms it includes all plants with woody stems except conifers and fruit trees and shrubs.
Fuchsia Banks’s ‘Nonesuch’
Fuchsia ‘Nonesuch’, Banks, 1852. It was described as crimson with a dark purple corolla, of good shape and a free bloomer, by C. Turner, the Royal Nursery, Slough, in an advertisement in The Gardeners Chronicle of 1852.
Fuchsia corymbiflora Ruiz. & Pav.
Frost-tender, erect or climbing shrub with opposite leaves, to 19cm long, and arching to pendant, terminal racemes of narrowly funnel-shaped flowers with pale pink to vermillion tubes and sepals, to 5cm long, in summer, followed by reddish-purple berries. To 4m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Fuchsia corymbiflora Ruiz. & Pav. var. alba Harrison
See Fuchsia corymbiflora Ruiz. & Pav. for a description and history of the species. Fuchsia corymbiflora alba is similar to the type but the calyx tube and lobes are almost white. [RHSD].
Fuchsia Epps’ ‘Kentish Bride’
A dark coloured fuchsia bred by Epps, ‘a good variety’. [Gard. Chron. 1846]. At this time dark coloured meant crimson tube and sepals and purplish corolla. I have found no more detailed description.
Fuchsia fulgens DC.
Frost-tender, upright shrub with spreading branches, ovate, finely-toothed leaves, to 23cm long, and pendant, terminal racemes of very small flowers, to 5cm long, with pink tubes, pale red sepals, green-tinged at the margins, and bright red corollas. To 1.5m. [RHSE, Hortus, Don].
Fuchsia Harrison’s ‘Goldfinch’
It is figured in the Floricultural Cabinet with a white tube and sepals, the latter tipped with green and well reflexed, and a bright red corolla shaded with orange. [FC p.226/1843].
Fuchsia Henderson’s ‘Duchess of Lancaster’
Henderson’s ‘Duchess of Lancaster’, 1853. ‘White tube and sepals, vermillion corolla, extra fine.’ The flower was well reflexed and distinctive. It was considered an excellent show fuchsia. [FC p.106/1853, FC p.33/1855 and FC p.23/1856].
Fuchsia Henderson’s ‘Prime Minister’
Edward George Henderson of St. John’s Wood, offered ‘Prime Minister’, a fuchsia of his own breeding, for sale in 'The Gardeners Chronicle' of 1851: ‘Bright, glossy crimson sepals, short and good tube, crimson purple corolla, good habit. A handsome well reflexed variety, that will give much satisfaction.’
Fuchsia Kyle‘s ‘Triumphans’
Kyle’s ‘Triumphans’ was offered for sale by Smith’s of Hackney in The Gardener’s Chronicle, p.314, 1843, in the same advertisement as ‘Transparens’ and ‘Dalstonii’ [GC p.314/1843]. No description was given.
Fuchsia macrantha Hook.
Frost-tender shrub, somewhat downy, with ovate leaves and large drooping clusters of pinkish-red flowers, devoid of a corolla, to 15cm long, in spring and summer. To 90cm. [RHSD].
Fuchsia macrostigma Benth. var. longiflora
Half-hardy, erect shrub with deep crimson flowers, erect to pendant, the corolla somewhat flattened and the tube sepals and corolla a bright, rich red colour, with contrasting very large, white stamens. To 1.5m. [RHSD].
Fuchsia magellanica Lam. var. gracilis L.H.Bailey
Gracilis forms a floriferous shrub of slender habit with small scarlet and violet-purple flowers. See also Fuchsia magellanica Lam. var. conica L.H.Bailey. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers', Don].
Fuchsia magellanica Lam. var. conica L.H.Bailey
The species Fuchsia magellanica Lam. is a borderline frost-hardy erect shrub with scalloped to toothed leaves, to 6cm long, and small flowers with red tubes, deep red, occasionally white or pale pink, wide-spreading sepals, and purple corollas, produced profusely throughout the summer. The variety conica, very similar to globosa [see T.478], has scarlet and purple flowers and globe-shaped buds. To 3m by 3m. Fuchsia magellanica has been used extensively to produce the modern, hardy fuchsias and makes a useful hedge in low frost areas. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers', Don].
Fuchsia magellanica Lam. var. globosa (Lindl.) L.H.Bailey
It has scarlet sepals and tube and purple corolla and is probably nearly identical to conica [see T.465]. The points of the sepals tend to adhere as the flowers open giving a globose appearance. [RHSD, Hortus].
Fuchsia magellanica Lam. var. grandiflora
Hardy shrub with shiny lance-shaped, toothed leaves, opposite or in whorls, and small, nodding, axillary flowers with scarlet tube and sepals and bluish-purple corolla. [RHSD. Hortus, Hilliers']. The variety grandiflora is a large-flowered form of Fuchsia magellanica. Fuchsia grandiflora as described and figured in the Floricultural Cabinet appears to be a form of Fuchsia magellanica: ‘A stiff and very compact grower, a most profuse bloomer, flowers somewhat like F. globosa, but much larger, and of a deep blood colour; its freeness in flowering, compact habits, large flowers, and rich colour, at once stamp its superiority to every other, for rooms, hot house or beds.’ [FC p.172/1835].
