Species
The majority of fuchsia species are native to Central and South America. A small additional number are found on Hispaniola (two species), in New Zealand (three species) and on Tahiti (one species). Philip A. Munz in his A Revision of the Genus Fuchsia classified the genus into seven sections of 100 species. More recent scientific publications, especially those by botanists Dr. Dennis E. Breedlove (University of California) and Prof. Paul E. Berry (Wisconsin State Herbarium), recognize almost 110 species organized into twelve sections. In New Zealand and Tahiti, section Skinnera now consists of only three species (F. x colensoi has been determined to be a naturally occurring hybrid between F. excorticata and F. perscandens). Also, F. procumbens has been placed into its own section, Procumbentes. Two other new sections are Pachyrrhiza and Verrucosa, containing one species each.
The vast majority of garden hybrids have descended from a few parent species.
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