Fuchsia Ballerina
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Fuchsia Ballerina
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
I love Fuchsia flowers typically as they look very delicate. They look very much like a ballerina with the bright pink tutus - especially to those double petal blooms when they are suspended upside down with the pistils look like their shoes.
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 (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti) 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 Fuchs (1501-1566).
The flowers are very decorative; they have a pendulous "teardrop" shape and are displayed in profusion throughout the summer and autumn, and all year in tropical species. They have four long, slender sepals and four shorter, broader petals; in many species the sepals are bright red and the petals purple (colors that attract the hummingbirds that pollinate them), but the colors can vary from white to dark red, purple-blue, and orange.
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December 15th, 2014
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