| Description | Petunia exserta (Petunia exserta) A species non-hybrid plant that blooms forever with lots of red tubular flowers. Supposedly Hummers like these plants. |
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| Pronunciation | (peh-TEWN-ya)(ek-SER-tuh) |
| Plant Type | Annuals, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 9b-11 |
| Sunlight | full, at least 1/2 day |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Growing Media | average |
| Temperature | Petunia enjoys the cooler weather. |
| Flowers | Red tubular flowers with a star-shaped opening, one of the only Petunia to be pollinated by Hummingbirds. The flower has a lot of nectar at its base and lacks fragrance. |
| Fruit | Produce small, dry, brown-to-black seed capsules with lots of small black seeds. |
| Leaves | Leaves are alternate and covered with a viscid pubescence, making them sticky when pinched. |
| Roots | fibrous roots |
| Dimensions | Reaches 1-2 feet. |
| Maintenance | Dead heading and pruning to maintain shape can be cut back hard and will quickly regrow. |
| Propagation | easy from seeds |
| Native Site | Endemic to the Serras de Sudeste in southern Brazil. |
| Cultivar Origin | First described in 1987, only fourteen plants were found in the wild during an expedition in 2007. |
| Misc Facts | The specific epithet (exserta) is a Latin word meaning "projecting" or "thrust forth," referring to the exerted stamens and stigma. |
| Author's Notes | Grew these from seeds in the summer of 2015. Transplanted green non-blooming plants into some larger pots. Soon they started blooming, and my first thought was, "I was sold the wrong seeds," since at first glance the flowers looked like Nicotiana. Checked the seed package, and they were truly a Petunia. Fun to grow species plants of the over-hybridized plants like Petunia. |
| Notes & Reference | #156-San Marcos Growers website (www.smgrowers.com), #274-Site Authors' observations and growing experiences, |
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