| 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 | enjoys the cooler weather |
| Flowers | tubular, with star shaped opening, deep red |
| Leaves | leaves are alternate and covered with a viscid pubescence, making them sticky when pinched |
| Maintenance | dead heading, pruning to maintain shape, can be cut back hard and will quickly regrow |
| Propagation | easy from seeds |
| Native Site | Brazil |
| Cultivar Origin | discovered around 2007 in Brazil |
| 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 thoughts were " 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 over hybridized plants like Petunia. |
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