Variations 
var. molinae
This plant produces deep pink flowers with mauve petals.

var. globosa
This plant produces globose buds that open with red-purple flowers.

var. gracilis
This upright shrub is slender and produces flowers with a scarlet calyx and purple petals.

Cultivar
'Alba'
This large shrub forms a compact habit and produces white flowers.

'Riccartonii'
This upright shrub grows to 3m (10ft) tall and has dark green leaves that are tinted bronze. The flower consists of a long scarlet tube with reflexed sepals and dark purple petals. It tolerates light frost and prefers a protected position, but is generally a hardy plant. It responds to pruning and may be used as a hedging plant.

'Thompsonii'
This upright shrub simular to the species produces numerous smaller blooms that have a scarlet tube, with pale purple petals. 

'Versicolor'
This shrub has grey-green leaves that are reddish when young and have a white blotched margin when mature. The small pendant flowers are deep red.

As a weed Hardy Fuchsia is invasive in cool high rainfall regions invading habitats including woodland margins, disturbed soils and along water courses. 

Large stands can inhibiting the development of native tree or shrub seedlings and prevents ground flora from growing. The shrub grows in moderately fertile moist well drained soils and prefers an open sunny to semi shaded position. The seeds are dispersed by birds, animals and in garden waste or in soil.

Control methods include physically digging out seedlings checking that all the roots are removed. Shrubs with fruiting branches should be bagged and removed off site. 

They may also have the trunk scraped or drilled, then paint with a non-selective herbicide. Small plant or seedlings may also be sprayed with a non-selective herbicide and larger plants may be slashed and sprayed as the new growth attains a height of 300mm (1ft).