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Petunia is a genus of 20 species of flowering plants of South American origin. [1] The popular flower of the same name derived its epithet from the French, which took the word pétun, 'tobacco', from a Tupi–Guarani language. A tender perennial, most of the varieties seen in gardens are hybrids (Petunia × atkinsiana, also known as Petunia × ...
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Ruellia humilis (wild petunia, [1] fringeleaf wild petunia, [2] hairy petunia, low wild petunia) is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to the eastern United States . [ 1 ]
Petunia × atkinsiana (synonym: Petunia × hybrida) is a Petunia plant "nothospecies" , which encompasses all hybrid species of petunia between P. axillaris and P. integrifolia. [1] Most of the petunias sold for cultivation in home gardens are this type and belong to this nothospecies.
Orange petunias were created in 1987 by a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, led by geneticist Peter Meyer.In a paper published in Nature the same year, the researchers demonstrated that the insertion of a gene from maize into a petunia would cause the plant to produce pelargonidin, turning its flowers salmon. [1]
Ruellia simplex, the Mexican petunia, Mexican bluebell or Britton's wild petunia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae that is native to Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. It has become a widespread invasive plant in Florida , where it was likely introduced as an ornamental before 1933, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as well as in the ...
Petunia axillaris, the large white petunia, [1] wild white petunia or white moon petunia, [2] is an annual herbaceous plant in the family Solanaceae, genus Petunia. [3] It is native to temperate South America comprising southern Brazil, parts of Argentina and Uruguay. The plant's flowers, the only white ones found in the Petunia genus, are 3 to ...
The genera Brunfelsia, Plowmania, Fabiana, Nierembergia and Petunia furnish garden plants bearing attractive flowers.Brunfelsia and Plowmania are genera of tropical shrubs requiring glasshouse protection in temperate climate areas; Fabiana species are hardy shrubs; Nierembergia species are dwarf, hardy herbaceous perennials or sub-shrubs, and Petunia × atkinsiana has yielded a huge variety of ...