Tree to 10 m tall with pale brown bark peeling to green below. Young shoots slightly hairy. Leaves entire or wavy-edged, mostly 4-10 cm long, more or less ovate. Flowers usually solitary, 2-3 cm long. Sepals 1-1.5 cm long. Petals 2-5 mm long, dark purple. Fruit ellipsoid, dark purple to almost black.
Occasionally cultivated in public gardens.
New Zealand.
Source: (2002). Fuchsia. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.