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Pict.10
F.corymbiflora - Bot. Reg. plate 70 |
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R. P.
[Flora
Peruviana, Et Chilensis, plate 325a
and Bot. Register
of 1841, plate 70,
[see pict.
10]), on the
other hand it is preferable to mention it as a true species.
This fuchsia is very distributed
over the Andes of Peru,
and was discovered by Ruiz
and
Pavon in the foliage of the forests in Chincao
and Muna
(North-East of Lima).
Named voyagers found of it specimens with man's heigh trunks
and they were stripped of at the foot. Mathews
saw the same fuchsia
in Chacapoyas, and
Jameson also
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brought to England
F.corymbiflora
by the nurseryman
Standish . He got the seed from out Montreal (Canada),
and well by mediation from somebody to
whom it was handed by a friend who came back from Cuso
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it remains uncertain if that seed was assembled from wild or from
cultivated specimen. In 1840 H. Buckmann
in Hamburg contributed much in
the distribution over all Europe of
F.corymbiflora,
what however didn't hinder,
that people in 1842 in Hamburg
and in Flottbeck had to pay for a
specimen of this variety still 3 Marks. |
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F.corymbiflora is
been thought as one of the most magnificent species
of its generation, and shines in
its flowering time with good formed overhanging
dense bunches of large half scarlet half purple flowers,
After she had generated in 1852 a
mutation with whitisch sepals [Flore des Serres, plate 547],
people got from this one and the stock variety still
some other varieties under which one with
multi-coloured leaves, |
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F.cylindracea Lindl. ['The Botanist',
plate 189, see
pict.11)
distinguish by little flowers with green sepals and
red corollas. and has Mexico as native country.
She was first obtained in the
garden of the Horticultural Society in London
from seed that was given to this society as a
present by George Baxter in Birmingham. In 1840
she appears in Europe.
With the variety named before in England was in the
same time imported
F.radicans
bijMiers,. In
the Organ-mountains of
Brasil she is
discovered op 1000 meter above the surface of
the sea. |
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Pict.11
F.cylindracea -'The Botanist 1841', plate 189 |
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Pict.12 F.radicans - 'Bot. Reg.
1841', plate 66 |
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The botanical garden in Birmingham owned before the original imported
specimen, and from out that garden the variety spread than also in to
the extent, that it allready in 1841 was find flowering in certain
collections of English people. F.radicans
reaches a hight of 8 foot and has bright
scarlet sepals and dark purple corollas.
You find of it a picture in the Bot. Reg. 1841,
plate 66 [see
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From the same time as the discovery of both species
named before dates that of
F.cordifolia Lindl. [pictured in Bot. Reg. 1841,
plate 71 and in Paxton's Mag. of Botany, plate
99 [zie afb.12A]. Hartweg
met this one by the climbing of
the vulcano Xetuch in Guatemala, on 3000 meter
above the surface of the sea, and
sent of them specimen to Horticultural Society in London. F.cordifolia
is one of the most remarkable
varieties because she on scarlet or orange flowers combines
green bracts and large stemleaves. Its currants ,which get the
format of
1½ inch, are eaten by the
natives of Guatemala. In 1842
people paid in Flottbeck 5
Marks for a specimen of this
named plant, Besides
F.cordifolia Hartweg
discovered still West of the level of Bogota,
under Acacia's and Piperaceeėn
F.verrucosa,
a little shrub with scarlet
flowers, and
F.hirtella,
of which the slender stems climbed up
against other plants till
a hight of 25 foot.
Further, at the west incline of
the Pichincha,
F.sylvatica,
F.sessifolia [Flore
des Serres, plate 907, see
pict.13],
F.scabriuscula
and
F.dependens, and at the east
incline of the same vulcano
F.ampliata.[“Curtis“s
Bot. Mag., plate 6839,
pict.14]. At last still
high on the Cordilleras,
above the town Popayan,
F.canescens and
F.corollata. Last named
varieties however aren't penetrated till now to the nurseries.
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Pict.12A
F.cordifolia - 'Paxton's Mag. of Botany', plate 99 |
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Pict.13
F.sessifolia' - 'Flore des Serres', plate 907 |
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Pict.14
F.ampliata - 'Curtis's Bot. Mag.“, plate 6839 |
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Pict.15 F.alpestris - 'Curtis's
Bot. Mag.', plate
3999 |
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In
1842 was announced from out a herb garden in Glasgow
the flowering of
F.alpestris Gard. [Curtis's Bot. Mag. plate
3999, see pict,15]
found by Gardner on a
rocky shadowed spot of the Organ-mountains 5000
foot above the surface of the sea. Its flowers
have sparkling red sepals and a purple red
corolla, sothat the plant is much corresponding
with F.integrifolia Lindl.
and F.virgata
Hort.,
which both a few earlier became known to the nurserymen
and of which this, by its hardiness, was used often as understem
by grafting of weepiung-fuchsias. |
(Will be continued in part III) |
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