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Petunia
Genus of flowering plants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about a genus of flowering plants. For other uses, see Petunia (disambiguation).
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 × hybrida).
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Petunia exserta flower | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Solanales |
Family: | Solanaceae |
Subfamily: | Petunioideae |
Genus: | Petunia Juss. |
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