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Fuchsia splendens Zucc.

Onagraceae · Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast +5

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Habitat figures
Coldest month, mean nightly low
6.8°C
Jan at the habitat, not a floor; extremes not used (the weather cell's ground is too far off) CHELSA
Warmest month, mean daily high
21°C
Apr at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,024mm
11 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
29–42DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
A sharp rainy season, June to October (the habitat's months, not shifted), in a year of even temperature. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Fuchsia splendens is a plant of the genus Fuchsia native to Central America.F. splendens is variable in tube color and length across it range. There are no taxa currently recognized below the rank of species. While often encountered in written works and on the internet, names such as Fuchsia splendens var. cordifolia are not valid.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Fuchsia splendens", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Fuchsia

Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Fuchsia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,571 mm of 2,015 mm) falls in June to October. The temperature curve is flat, 3.2 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

2,015 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,571 mm of it June to October. Wettest month September at 379 mm, driest month January at 24 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,590 mm to 4,504 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,024 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,015 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 42 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 24, the highest 90th-percentile month 47).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 6.8 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 4.4 °C to 10.6 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 21.1 °C in April (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 6.8 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, January, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell whose ground is too far above or below the typical spot to correct for, and are not used.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 57 to 70% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Fuchsia splendens through the yearWarmest month April, mean daily high 21 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 6.8 °C; 2,015 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.0°5°10°15°20°25°30°°C · day and nightcold quarter0200400600800mm rainDLI 29–42RH 57–70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 70 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C18 / 14–2219 / 15–2320 / 16–2521 / 16–2620 / 15–2519 / 14–2319 / 14–2319 / 15–2318 / 14–2218 / 14–2117 / 14–2117 / 14–22
Night °C7 / 4–117 / 5–118 / 6–129 / 7–1310 / 7–1411 / 7–1510 / 7–1410 / 7–1410 / 7–1410 / 7–138 / 6–127 / 5–11
Rain mm24 / 13–16626 / 16–11734 / 11–12467 / 20–226181 / 86–500367 / 302–575300 / 209–494316 / 256–590379 / 308–620209 / 147–61971 / 40–43441 / 13–219
DLI32 / 29–3636 / 34–3940 / 39–4342 / 36–4739 / 27–4231 / 25–3434 / 25–3733 / 26–3629 / 26–3129 / 24–3130 / 25–3330 / 27–33
RH %59 / 54–6358 / 54–6057 / 54–6059 / 54–6263 / 60–6668 / 66–7066 / 63–6867 / 64–6970 / 67–7168 / 65–7064 / 60–6861 / 56–65

The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, +1041 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's. So no cold floor is read for this species, and the coldest month's mean nightly low is not taken as one. What that cell gave, so corrected, over 44 years: absolute minimum -3.8 °C, 1st-percentile night 0.6 °C.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 70 grid cells holding the 193 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1464:1746 (16.775, -92.675). Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 70 distinct grid cells holding 193 of the 193 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1464:1746 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 17.00_-92.500, lapse-corrected +1041 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 2310 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker16.731, -92.53 · in the densest population, 174 records (51% of those in range)
Kew's description“epiphytic shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 343 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 193 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 247 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 4 km away. 5 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 150 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 343 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, some rights reserved (CC BY); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (5).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Holodiscus argenteus Holodiscus argenteus Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozEcheveria bella Echeveria bella Crassulaceae Photo: CC BY, Neptalí Ramírez MarcialSedum guatemalense Sedum guatemalense Crassulaceae Photo: CC BY, Neptalí Ramírez MarcialSalvia carnea Salvia carnea Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Carlos TorrenteSalvia disjuncta Salvia disjuncta Southern Mexican sage Photo: CC BY, Skjold SøndergaardRhynchostele stellata Rhynchostele stellata Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Carlos Funes

Other Fuchsia 35 in the reference

Fuchsia alpestris Fuchsia alpestris Onagraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael Wolf (Webseite)Fuchsia apetala Fuchsia apetala Onagraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Thibaud AronsonFuchsia arborescens Fuchsia arborescens Aretillo Photo: CC BY, Vítor JorgeFuchsia austromontana Fuchsia austromontana Onagraceae Photo: CC BY, Jhon A. Yuca-PalominoFuchsia ayavacensis Fuchsia ayavacensis Onagraceae Photo: CC BY, Paúl Gonzáles Fuchsia × bacillaris Onagraceae Fuchsia boliviana Fuchsia boliviana Bolivian fuchsia Photo: CC BY, Juan Carlos Caicedo HernándezFuchsia campos-portoi Fuchsia campos-portoi Onagraceae Photo: CC BY, harrierFuchsia coccinea Fuchsia coccinea Onagraceae Photo: CC BY, Daniel CahenFuchsia × colensoi Fuchsia × colensoi Onagraceae Photo: CC0, Max TweddellFuchsia corymbiflora Fuchsia corymbiflora Onagraceae Photo: CC BY, LijealsoFuchsia denticulata Fuchsia denticulata Onagraceae Photo: CC BY, RJ Baltierra all 36 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Fuchsia cordifolia; Fuchsia intermedia. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Onagraceae
Described by
Zucc.
Native to
Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Costa Rica +4
Wild records
343 in range · 247 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 17.00_-92.500, lapse-corrected +1041 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: the correction for elevation, +1041 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's, so no cold floor is shown
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 612651-1 is Kew's for Fuchsia splendens Zucc.
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 41 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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