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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 × ...
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 × 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.
Supertunia Tiara Pink deserves to be grown with a blue like Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo petunia or Superbells Grape Punch calibrachoa. Go ahead and say those are purple.
Petunia violacea Lindl. has been reported to be used as a hallucinogen in Ecuador, where the plant has the vernacular name shanín.The drug is said to cause sensations of levitation and flight – a type of hallucination often associated with the use of the more toxic hallucinogenic plants of the deliriant type; e.g., the tropane-containing Atropa and Hyoscyamus, active constituents of the ...
Ruellia humilis Nutt. – fringeleaf wild petunia, plains petunia, fringeleaf ruellia, hairy ruellia, low ruellia, zigzag ruel; Ruellia hypericoides (Nees) Lindau; Ruellia incomta (Nees) Lindau; Ruellia insignis Balf.f. Ruellia jaliscana Standl. Ruellia jussieuoides Schltdl. & Cham. Ruellia kuriensis Vierh. Ruellia macrantha (Nees) Gower ...
A living example of too much information, the pink creature earned its name for its transparent skin that clearly displays a show-stealing arrangement with its intestines, mouth and anus entirely ...
Calibrachoa are closely related to Petunia. However, on further examination it has been found that there are major differences in chromosomes, corresponding to external differences and fertilization factors that distinguished the two genera. Petchoa is a hybrid genus derived from crossing the genetically similar Calibrachoa and Petunia. [2]