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Identify this plant please

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    IME fuchsia seedpods tend towards the purplish ... however as I don't grow escallonia I can't remember what their seedpods are like, or whether they vary from variety to variety ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Kitty 2 said:
    I can see the seed pods Dove... still none the wiser.
    They seem to be spherical and a glossy very dark purple, almost black.




    I see those too, Fuchsia seed pods not escallonia. and this fuchsia will go brown in winter, (permanently maybe), Escallonia is evergreen


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    edited March 2018
    If memory serves, I think http: fuchsia seed pods are more elongated, these pods look spherical 
    There is a fuchsia that looks similar though - 
    <a href="https://garden.org/plants/photo/132056/">https://garden.org/plants/photo/132056/</a>


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That looks very similar Pete ... another link here  http://www.kernock.co.uk/acatalog/Fuchsia-microphylla-Pink-U3161.html 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Pete8 said:
    If memory serves, I think fuchsia seed pods are more elongated, these pods look spherical 
    There is a fuchsia that looks similar though - 
    https://garden.org/plants/photo/132056/


    Lots of Fuchsia seed pods are spherical
    I'll be totally amazed if that's not a Fuchsia 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Me too, Nut.  The Fuchsia Society exhibits at the Harrogate flower show and there are quite a few of these dainty, small-flowered ones.  As you say, they're not very hardy...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    Maybe it is not 'evergreen' as Sally states in the original post.  It could simply be a dormant fuschia, waiting for Spring to sprout new growth.

    That would explain why it's...
    Quote: "very brown and sorry looking"

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I think maybe, in their own habitat, Fuchsias are evergreen. 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    Interesting thought nut, and we've no idea where Sally's located.

    The half-hardys don't stand a chance up here without indoor protection overwinter.


  • FritillaryFritillary Posts: 498
    I think I may have found it. It could be an Encliandra fuchia. :)
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