Fuchsia Compendium - I

ICHNEUMON FLIES - a garden friend because the females lay eggs in caterpillars which become the host of the resulting larvae

IMBRICATE - if indicates that the petals are over lapping.

INFLORESCENCE - the name for the complete flower.

INSECTICIDE -to control insects. These chemicals are applied to the plant themselves or as a drench to the soil around them to control the pest. These chemicals work in several ways. a) By direct contact. By leaving a deposit on the leaves so that eating or walking on the leaf kills them. c) Chemical being absorbed by the plant into it’s sap killing sap sucking insects. Insecticides are available in different forms; sprays, aerosols, dusts, smokes, granular form and thermal vaporisers.

INSECTS - friend and foe look under separate headings.

INTER SPECIFIC HYBRID - a hybrid of two different species from the same genus. This should be indicated by having the generic name followed by an ‘x’ and then the specific name. If interspecific hybrid fuchsias were written in this manner there would be less confusion. i.e. Fuchsia x ‘Mary’, Fuchsia x ‘Whiteknights Ruby’

INTERNODAL CUTTINGS - pieces of stem taken for vegetative propagation from between nodes. Also see Hardwood cuttings

INTERNODE - a node is where a leaves or buds are attached to the stem, so internodal is any part of the stem between two nodes.

IRON - only becomes deficient in alkaline soils and then only to certain plants which does not include fuchsias