The Petunia
by Robert Bales
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The Petunia
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Robert Bales
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One of our favorite flowers that we grow in northwest in the summer and the southwest in the winter.
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).
The plants are herbaceous, generally hairy, and the flowers are funnel-shaped, with petals joined together. The fruit is a dry capsule with two compartments and many tiny seeds.
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