Fuchsia excorticata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) L.f.

Gynodioecious, deciduous tree or shrub to ± 12 m high;  trunk to 60 cm diam.  Main branches stout, spreading;  bark conspicuously light pinkish or brownish orange, very thin, peeling in strips; branchlets ± puberulous. Petioles slender, 1–4 cm long.  Lamina (1.5)–2–14 × (0.7)–1–6.5 cm, usually lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, usually sinuate, obscurely toothed, glabrous except on veins and margins, thin, dark green above, pale glaucous to silvery below, sometimes suffused with red or purple;  base rounded or cuneately narrowed;  apex acute to acuminate.  Fls usually solitary, pendulous, often cauliflorous;  pedicels filiform, to  c. 15 mm long.  Floral tube 7–20 mm long, green to ± purple at first.  Sepals 5–16 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, green at first, the whole calyx turning red later, often eventually reflexing.  Petals 2–5 mm long, dark purple, elliptic.  Stamens of ☿ fls well exserted; filaments 7–12 mm long, purplish.  Style 20–35 mm long, much > stamens;  stigma capitate.  Berry  c. 10 mm long, ellipsoid-oblong, dark purple to almost black.  

[From:  Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Jun.–Jan.