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The word fuchsia is employed in literature with a remarkable versatility that spans both literal and metaphorical realms. It often serves as a botanical emblem of beauty and vivid color, conjuring images of flourishing hedges and picturesque gardens—where a “well grown fuchsia in full bloom” exemplifies nature’s grace ([1]) and hedges are described as being “clipped” or “running up the windows” with fuchsia blossoms ([2], [3]). At times, fuchsia functions almost as a character, lending a personal or symbolic layer to a narrative; for instance, a character named Fuchsia expresses a measured reply ([4]), or a place is designated as Fuchsia Cottage, imbuing it with a distinct identity ([5]). This dual capacity—both as a botanical reference and as a metaphor for personality or place—highlights the rich, multifaceted use of fuchsia in literary texts.

Fuchsia There is perhaps no plant which more perfectly combines gracefulness and beauty of color than a well grown fuchsia in full bloom.
— from Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse by F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell
The cottages are much the same as when last he saw them, now nearly fifty years ago, "with jessamine and fuchsia running up the windows."
— from In the West Country by Francis A. (Francis Arnold) Knight
They went in to the flat garden with its high hedges of fuchsia planted for shelter.
— from The Scratch Pack by Dorothea Conyers
Fuchsia's reply was a slow, deliberate nod.
— from The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker
So, about four o'clock on the day of Mr. Badger's visit, Christobel announced she was going for a walk, and "made tracks" for Fuchsia Cottage.
— from Pam and the Countess by E. E. (Edith Elise) Cowper

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