Fuchsia arborescens Sims

Low shrub to tree 20 m. tall, sometimes epiphytic, glabrous or nearly so; branchlets, petioles and veins sometimes tinged with red; leaves opposite or in 3's, oblong-oblanceolate to-elliptic, acute or acuminate at both ends, paler beneath than above, entire to serrulate, the blades 3-20 cm. long, with 9-13 principal veins on each side of midrib; flowers many, crowded in corymbose panicles 5-25 cm. long and equally wide, the lower branches of the inflorescence with few reduced leaves, the upper floriferous ones with much reduced deciduous subulate bracts; pedicels reddish, slender, erect, 5-20 mm. long; floral tube tubular to funnelform, 4.5-8 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide at summit; sepals reddish to wine-purple, linear to lance-oblong, 4.5-7 mm. long, spreading-reflexed at anthesis; petals lavender to lilac, lance-ovate, spreading, two-thirds as long as sepals; epi-sepalous stamens exceeding sepals, epipetalous somewhat shorter; stigma purplish, conic, ca. 0.5 mm. long; berry purplish, covered with blue bloom, subglobose, 7-10 mm. thick.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in moist mixed forest. It grows between 1,300-2,900 m above sea level. It is best in a moist, well-drained soil.

The fruit are eaten.

Plants can be grown from fresh seeds. They can also be grown by cuttings.