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Hello  Good to find this place, I'm a bit of a bonsai fuchsia addict myself! I was just wondering if anyone knows the difference between fuchsias 'Hemsleyana' and 'Microphylla'. Both great for bonsai as they have tiny leaves and flowers, but I can't for the life of me see any difference between either the leaves or flowers on my plants.
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Welcome to the site Babs. You will find a group of friendly people here and if anyone can answer your question it will be Kath our host. She'll be along soon. I have just replied to let you know that we are awake. =Don.
My name is Don and I'm a bonsaiholic.
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Thank you Don! 
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| Hi Babs and welcome, Sorry for the delay in answering, but I have just returned to the U.K. from visiting the Netherlands. Question: Difference between f. hemsleyana and f. microphylla. As a general rule, hardly any difference at all, in fact in some books it is written - "f.hemsleyana is synonomus with f. microphylla subsp. hemsleyana" f.microphylla has what is called perfect and pistillate flowers, the latter being slightly smaller. On the other hand f.hemsleyana is sometimes described - "as a group of the apetalous species = no petals only corollas" Yes, the deeper you go into these questions the more complicated it gets  , but as I said earlier most 'fuchsia folk' consider them to be the same.
Kath
UK - Zone 8
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I was wondering where you had got to Kath. Perhaps visiting Henk's relatives. I hope that you had a pleasant time.
My name is Don and I'm a bonsaiholic.
My imaginary friend Givitago takes over when I'm not sure of myself in print. He's not a complete fool - several bits are missing.
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| Brilliant, thanks very much!! That'll stop me having to stare at them intently trying to figure it out...  The're both looking quite good for the bonsais so far!
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