Prostrate shrub with spreading stems. Young shoots thin. Leaves to about 1.5 cm long or more, roundish to broadly ovate; margins wavy with few small teeth. Flowers 1-2 cm long. Sepals bent back, purplish at the tip, tube yellow. Petals absent. Blue pollen is a conspicuous character. Fruit ovoid to oblong or obovoid, red to magenta.
Grows naturally in sandy and rocky places, occasionally submerged.
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.