Fuchsia campos-portoi
Compos-Porto fuchsia
A large deciduous shrub, semi-evergreen in mild locations, about 1.5-2m tall, with dark green foliage, and pendent flowers which have a dark purple corollas and pink-red sepals and stamens, produced from summer through to autumn
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Growing conditions
Colour & scent
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Aspect
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Botanical details
- Family
- Onagraceae
- Native to GB / Ireland
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Fruit, are, ornamental, -, not, to, be, eaten., Wear, gloves, and, other, protective, equipment, when, handling
- Genus
Fuchsia can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs or trees, rarely perennials, with opposite or whorled leaves and usually pendent flowers with conspicuous tubular calyx, 4 spreading sepals and 4 erect petals
- Name status
Correct
How to grow
Cultivation
Grow in fertile, moist but well-drained soil in full sun or part shade in a sheltered position or in containers of peat-free multipurpose potting compost. See hardy fuchsia cultivation for further advice
Propagation
Propagate by softwood cuttings in any season
Suggested planting locations and garden types
Pruning
Pruning Group 6
Pests
May be susceptible to aphids, capsid bug, fuchsia gall mite, fuchsia flea beetle, glasshouse red spider mite and vine weevil
Diseases
May be susceptible to fuchsia rust, grey moulds and honey fungus (rarely)
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