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Up
to the present the subject botanical fuchsias was for me an
item, of which I knew not to bring on
this website new information for the
fuchsialovers. What there is to find
about on internet is 'much
of the same'. Mostly it are webpages
with species-names, which are fastened
in group-tabels (secties). Often there are also
showed photos of species. About the
breeding up of the various species -
that is for certain species specific - is to
find on internet still little
information. Very usefull breeding-up
information about species you find in the
book Botanishe Fuchsia's from
Mrs. Mia Goedman-Frankema.
In the first years of the UTC of the
Dutch KNvF - I have helped collective breeding
up many of this species which
were imported from America. And while
then much of this specific breeding-up
information wasn't still available for
the members of the botanical group, there failed
much. Yes, also in my collection.
Therefore I became not a fan of
botanical fuchsia's.
Recently I visit a Brasilian website of
a supplier of plantessences who
published there a large list with names
of
occuring fuchsia species. By comparing
this names with among others the
standard work'A
revision of the genus fuchsia (onagraceae)'
from P.A.Munz, I saw soon that in
this list also were standing the synonym
names of the species.. Many explorers
have scoured the often inhospitable
territories of South-America to among
this fuchsiaspecies. That happened in
the 17e and 18e century, in a period
that the photography wasn't discovered.
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Herbarium page
with earlier
gathered parts
of the species
F.summa for
comparing new
discoveries. |
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The only comparing material at
the discovery situations exist of
collections in herbaria or drawings (engravings) which were made by sooner explorers on a
place where something has been found. So the
explorers Hipolito Ruiz &
José Pavon have fastened in the Andes mountains their discoveries in
engravings. These pictures are
published in the botanical book 'Flora Peruviana et Chilensis'.
Eight copies of engravings of their
found fuchsiaspecies you can see on this GFI-website
(click
here) |
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Than it isn't also a
wonder that by this faulty many
fuchsiaspecies have got synonym names. Later explorers as Munz,
Breedlove and Paul Berry have tried to
fasten synonym names in their
publications.
It thought me well to fasten after this
what are the realy botanical fuchsia's
(species). Also some names of species,
which are noticed on the websites
www.soraf-botanique.com and
www.hoefakkerfuchsia.nl, are added. As in the following eight
pages tables is to see in the column
'Volgnummers Europese collectie' I count
momentary 105 fuchsia-species.
From the find synonym names are also fastened
in this tables the real speciesnames.
It seems me suitable to illustrate the
tables with copies engravings of
fuchsiaspecies, which are mostly in
former times made by the teams explorers
on the habitat place.
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-November
2008