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a flower so dramatic it became a color nobody can spell correctly
means A vivid purplish-red or pinkish-purple color, named after the flowering plant whose drooping blossoms wear exactly that shade.
from Named for the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs, whose surname simply means 'fox' in German. The plant was christened in his honor in the 18th century by a French botanist; the color borrowed the plant's name later. So the spelling that trips everyone up is really just a man's last name wearing a Latin ending — and that buried 'fox' is why the 'chs' sits where no English speaker expects it.
- named after
- botanist Leonhart Fuchs, dead 250 years prior
- spelling trap
- often misspelled fuschia by nearly everyone
- web color
- identical to magenta in HTML code
- edible
- its berries are genuinely safe to eat
- hummingbird bait
- shaped specifically to lure long-beaked pollinators
fuchsia flower — central american plant genus with distinctive hanging tubular flowers in pink, purple, and red, named after botanist leonhart fuchs in 1753
fuchsia color pantone 17-1564 — vivid magenta-pink shade defined by pantone as a specific color standard used in design and printing