Fuchsia ayavacensis

Native to southern Ecuador and northern Peru, this upright or scrambling shrub grows in moist mountain thickets and secondary woodland. Pale hairs cover young shoots, and leaves usually form whorls of three. Pendant flowers have narrow orange-red tubes and spreading sepals, with shorter orange-red petals. The ripe ellipsoid berries are reddish. Older branches develop peeling brown bark. Some flowerpiercers and hummingbirds reach its nectar through holes in the flower tubes, bypassing the pollen-bearing parts. Photographed in Peru.