Fuchsia procumbens, creeping fuchsia,  shore fuchsia, climbing or trailing fuchsia is endemic to the North Island. This naturally uncommon species is found from the Ninety Mile Beach and Perpendicular Point south to Maunganui Bluff in the west, and Kennedy Bay (Coromandel Peninsula) in the east. It is known as a naturalised plant on Kapiti Island. It is strictly a coastal species, and can be found in cobble/gravel beaches, coastal cliff faces, coastal scrub and grassland, dune slacks and swales, and from the margins of saltmarshes (in places where it would be inundated during spring tides). It is quite tolerant of naturalised grasses and may be found growing amongst dense swards of kikuyu grass (Pennisetum clandestinum. At various times regarded as seriously threatened, partly because some populations comprise only of a single sex-type. However, comprehensive surveys throughout this species range have discovered new populations and confirmed the persistence of the majority of the older sites.  Its range has hardly decreased and it would seem that the distribution of sex-types is natural. Because the species is so tolerant of environmental disturbance and weeds it is now regarded as biologically sparse. However, some populations have been eliminated recently by coastal development for holiday homes. If this trend continues then this species will probably qualify for a higher level of threat in the not to distant future. This remarkably adaptable plant is the smallest fuchsia in the world, and can be grown in most situations. It is a slender, much branched prostrate or trailing shrub. It has very slender stems, often 60 to 90 cm long and the bark is brown and peeling, with rounded green leaves about 10mm in diameter. The flowers are unusual for a fuchsia in that they are upright (a distinction it shares with F. arborescens of Mexico). They are yellow in colour with green and dark purplish sepals, with red anthers that have blue pollen. The flowers occur in September - May followed by edible red berries in early winter. It makes an excellent ground cover, and is ideal for a hanging basket.