Fuchsia ‘President’ (Ladies’-eardrops)

This fuchsia is a cultivated variety that does not occur in the wild in the United States, cultivated by Standish and introduced in 1841. Apparently there are a jaw-dropping fifteen thousand cultivars of Fuchsia, so it is perhaps understandable that distinguishing among them is something of a challenge. I have seen variants named Fuchsia ‘President’, Fuchsia ‘The President’, and even names like “Fuchsia ‘President George Bartlett’” and “President Gosselin Fuchsia.” Are all these unique cultivars? Probably.

Flowers: Stunning in appearance, drooping, with red, sharp-tipped petals and a deep red-purple center. Stamens and styles, also red, extend far past the flower boundaries.

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9/7/2010 · New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, Massachusetts · ≈ 8 × 5″ (20 × 13 cm)

9/7/2010 · New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, Massachusetts · ≈ 9 × 6″ (23 × 15 cm)

9/7/2010 · New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, Massachusetts · ≈ 15 × 10″ (39 × 26 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Rosidae	Roses, legumes, proteas, dogwoods, hydrangeas, mistletoes, euphorbias, grapes, many more
Order	Myrtales	Includes myrtles, leadwoods, loosestrifes, pomegranates, evening primroses, many others
Family	Onagraceae	Willowherb/evening primrose family
Genus	Fuchsia	After Leonard Fuchs (1501-1566), a German physician and herbalist, and the first modern maker of Latin-form plant names

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Range: Zones 8a-10b:

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