Scientific Name: Petunia x hybrida
Common Name: petunia, Supertunia mini
Family Name: Solanaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C)
Plant Type: Annual
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Mounded
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Ovate, Entire
Flowers: Flowers solitary, White, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Violet, Pink, Magenta, Red, Dark-red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Creeping annual with long and somewhat limp stems that are often sticky; leaves pale, light green, ovoid and alternate; flowers radially symmetrical, large (>4cm wide), petals white to purple (or bicolour), trumpet-like, limp; sepals with prominent green finger-like sepals.