Message: "Re: Fuchsia" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Re: Fuchsia

by Norah Namenerd

7/8/2011, 10:44 AM

in reply to a message by insane romantic

You're not far off-- the plant the Fuchsia was actually named for German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. If you hang out with botanists and other plant scientists, they still call it a FOOKS-ee-a (I dated an ethnobotanist-- it used to kind of drive me crazy)

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Fuchsia · Pie · 7/8/2011, 5:02 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Pink Princess · 7/9/2011, 7:44 PM

•LONG List for you · Caralena Estelle · 7/8/2011, 9:26 PM

•Re: Fuchsia · mirfak · 7/8/2011, 1:53 PM

•Re: Fuchsia · Orsino · 7/8/2011, 12:15 PM

•Re: Fuchsia · guru · 7/8/2011, 11:53 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · ninjato · 7/8/2011, 11:02 AM

•Zinnia · Norah Namenerd · 7/8/2011, 10:46 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Bear · 7/8/2011, 10:21 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · insane romantic · 7/8/2011, 8:55 AM

•so Fuchsia and Foxglove? · Caralena Estelle · 7/8/2011, 9:28 PM

•Re: Fuchsia · Norah Namenerd · 7/8/2011, 10:44 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Pie · 7/8/2011, 10:00 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Just Jonquil · 7/8/2011, 8:52 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Pie · 7/8/2011, 10:01 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Speranza · 7/8/2011, 7:18 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Pie · 7/8/2011, 9:53 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Llewella · 7/8/2011, 8:33 AM

•LOL. (nt) · Pie · 7/8/2011, 9:53 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Speranza · 7/8/2011, 9:28 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · yasmine · 7/8/2011, 7:14 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Pie · 7/8/2011, 9:55 AM

•I am Fuchsia! I am me! ETA · New_Chloe · 7/8/2011, 6:47 AM

•Re: I am Fuchsia! I am me! ETA · Pie · 7/8/2011, 9:49 AM

•Re: I am Fuchsia! I am me! ETA · New_Chloe · 7/8/2011, 10:03 AM

•Re: I am Fuchsia! I am me! ETA · insane romantic · 7/8/2011, 8:57 AM

•Re: I am Fuchsia! I am me! ETA · New_Chloe · 7/8/2011, 8:58 AM

•Re: I am Fuchsia! I am me! ETA · Llewella · 7/8/2011, 8:34 AM

•Re: I am Fuchsia! I am me! ETA · New_Chloe · 7/8/2011, 9:10 AM

•"Oh, Fuchsia, you leave me breathing like the drowning man." (m) · Alcyone · 7/8/2011, 6:13 AM

•Re: "Oh, Fuchsia, you leave me breathing like the drowning man." (m) · Pie · 7/8/2011, 10:07 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Llewella · 7/8/2011, 5:43 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Pie · 7/8/2011, 9:57 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · Llewella · 7/8/2011, 11:58 AM

•Re: Fuchsia · New_Chloe · 7/8/2011, 8:49 AM

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