Fuchsia is a genus of
flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first, Fuchsia
triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola about 1696–1697 by the French Minim monk and botanist, Charles Plumier during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He
named the new genus after the renowned German botanist Leonhart
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