Box-thorn Fuchsia (Fuchsia lycioides)

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PedricksCorner Freedom, CA(Zone 9b) Aug 27, 2008

Box-thorn Fuchsia
Fuchsia lycioides

Lycioides is one of the original fuchsia from South America. It can take the sun.

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jamesuc santiago, Chile Nov 14, 2008



F. lycioides grow in my country, near where I live, which your you expose, is not f. lycioides. it is f. rosea (f.magellanica X f. lycioides), have been a natural hybrid, classified for 200 years like species. but by DNA it has been verified that is not species. it does not have the false thorns of the lycioides. furthermore f. lycioides have unit female and hermafrodits.

it only grows near the desert to borders of the sea. only in my country.

http://www.chilebosque.cl/shrb/flyci.html
http://www.chileflora.com/Florachilena/FloraSpanish/HighResPages/SH0421.html



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Roberto Valenzuela
Chilean

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PedricksCorner Freedom, CA(Zone 9b) Nov 19, 2008

Thank you Roberto. I purchased this plant from a well known nursery which has been growing and hybridizing fuchsias for over 60 years and has a collection of over 1,000 varieties. They had identified it as Lycioides, but I will let them know that it is actually f. rosea and is a cross between f.lycioides and f.magellanica. My magellanica is one of my favorites and is over ten feet high!! With a thick trunk which has beautiful bark.

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) Oct 31, 2010

Did you find anything out about the identity of this plant? We do want it to be represented in the correct entry.

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PedricksCorner Freedom, CA(Zone 9b) Nov 01, 2010

I sent photos with close-ups to the Northwest Fuchsia Society and she agreed that what I have is F. lycioides. Since it has been in cultivation for so long, and my source of this species was a world traveler in the 1940's and 1950's in his search for plants to cultivate in his nursery, I am fairly certain he made the proper identification.

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) Nov 01, 2010

Thanks for following up on this. :)

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PedricksCorner Freedom, CA(Zone 9b) Nov 01, 2010

You are welcome! Now I am going to be tracking down a source for the F. rosea so I can see them both together. I did do a bit of searching today, and apparently there is still some confusion out there.

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jamesuc santiago, Chile Nov 17, 2014

Fuchsia lycioides ODD has its leaves, the petiole is persistent, like a thorn, hence the English name "Box-thorn Fuchsia"
not withstand temperatures below 0 degrees celcius.

Photos of individual female and hermaphrodite individuals

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