Leonhart Fuchs, sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs and cited in Latin as Leonhartus Fuchsius, was a German physician and botanist. His chief notability is as the author of a large book about plants and
Portrait by Heinrich Füllmaurer [de], Tübingen, 1541
Fuchs Geburthaus, Wemding
Main building of Erfurt University in 16th C
Old medical school at Ingolstadt
Fuchsia is a vivid pinkish–red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart F
Leonhart Fuchs
…Fuchs's name is commemorated in many ways in his home town of Wemding, which has adopted the nickname of Fuchsienstadt (Fuchsia City), used the colour Fuchsia as its theme and decorated public places with plantings of Fuchsia. The house where he was born (Geburtshaus Leonhart Fuchs) bears a plaque. Because…
Flowers of the fuchsia plant
A sample of fuchsine dye in an aqueous solution
Crystals of fuchsine dye and the color they produce
On computer screens, red and blue light combined at full intensity produce fuchsia or magenta. The two web colors are identical, and have the same hex code, FF00FF.