Fuschia - the many garden varieties in your nurseries - originated from this wild species, the Fuschia Magellanica. Every species around here is named after Ferdinand Magellan, the first to cross the Drake passage and the Straits of Magellan in 1520, probably the roughest, most unpredictable waters in the world. Then he completed the first circumnavigation of the world. So they named a lot of stuff after him. But mostly around here.