Three long hanging red Fuchsia corollata flowers with pale anthers and pink stigmas

Fuchsia corollata


Native from southern Colombia to northern Ecuador, it is a scrambling shrub of moist Andean habitats. Its hanging red to deep pink flowers have long tubes and projecting stamens and stigmas. It also grows in shrub vegetation near roads and agricultural land. Flowerpiercer birds visit its tubular flowers for nectar. Photographed in Colombia.

A pink tubular Fuchsia corollata flower with a projecting rounded stigma
A long hanging red-pink Fuchsia corollata flower beside toothed green leaves

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