Shrubs, sometimes scrambling. Young shoots angular, hairy or not. Leaves opposite, to 4 cm long, 3 cm wide, lanceolate to oblanceolate; margin entire or toothed. Perianth tube to just over 1 cm long. Sepals and petals white to reddish purple. Fruit ellipsoid to club-shaped, blackish purple.

Mexico to Costa Rica and Panama.

subsp. hemsleyana (Woodson &Sieb.) Breedlove from Costa Rica and Panama has white-hairy young shoots, a short hypanthium, and sepals that bend backwards. The flowers are reddish purple. Syn. F. hemsleyana Woodson & Siebert.

Source: Waldron, M.; Spencer, R. (2002). Fuchsia. In: Spencer, R.. 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.