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Definition of Fuchsia excorticata
1. Noun. Erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon flowers; New Zealand.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fuchsia Excorticata
Literary usage of Fuchsia excorticata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1895)
"40 feet ; fuchsia excorticata (L. fil.), also from New Zealand, stem reaching 2
feet in diameter ; Rhododendron ..."
2. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... alias fuchsia excorticata, is a New Zealand shrub, -witb the leaves alternate
acute slightly toothed, and whitish beneath; tlie calyx purple and ..."
3. The Maori Race by Edward Tregear (1904)
"... fuchsia excorticata); of two species of solanum shrubs (poroporo, poporo:
Solanum aviculare and S. nigrum) and of some other trees and shrubs were eaten ..."