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petunias
Petunia
Petunia is genus of 35 species of flowering plants of South American origin, closely related to tobacco, cape gooseberries, tomatoes, deadly nightshades, potatoes and chili peppers in the same family, Solanaceae. The popular flower of the same name derived its epithet from the French, which took the word petun, meaning "tobacco," from a Tupi–Guarani language. An annual, most of the varieties seen in gardens are hybrids (P. × atkinsiana, also known as P. × hybrida).
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first
garden petunia
hybridPetunia × atkinsiana
violetflower petunia
speciesPetunia integrifolia
large white petunia
speciesPetunia axillaris
Petunia inflata
speciesPetunia inflata
red petunia
speciesPetunia exserta
Petunia altiplana
speciesPetunia altiplana
Petunia interior
speciesPetunia interior
Petunia occidentalis
speciesPetunia occidentalis
Petunia scheideana
speciesPetunia scheideana
Petunia guarapuavensis
speciesPetunia guarapuavensis
Petunia reitzii
speciesPetunia reitzii
Petunia secreta
speciesPetunia secreta
Petunia bonjardinensis
speciesPetunia bonjardinensis
Petunia bajeensis
speciesPetunia bajeensis
Petunia saxicola
speciesPetunia saxicola
Petunia mantiqueirensis
speciesPetunia mantiqueirensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55406.