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Petunia Integrifolia

Diana L. Politika wrote:

> Vicki Sironen wrote:
>
> I have a Petunia integrifolia which I bought on a whim and have fallen

> in love with.  I am assuming it is an annual and I am wondering how I
> can propagate the plant so I can enjoy it next year.  I've looked for
> seeds on the plant and can't find any.  But maybe they are just very
> small?  How do I collect something I can't see?  Should I take
cuttings?
> Will the cuttings live through the winter?  Any help will be
> appreciated.
> vicki
> Seattle, WA  USA
>
 If you have this plant, it MAY make it here in Washington.  To be sure
 you keep it, take cuttings.  It is a tender perennial here.  How much
 did that plant cost (wherever you found it)?

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Here is what I found about Petunia integrifolia in the Time-Life
Encyclopedia:


     The first thing Europeans wanted to do with petunias after wild
ones were discovered in
     Argentina in the 19th century was cross breed them. From Petunia
axillaris, a fragrant
     species, and Petunia integrifolia, a fragrance-freespecies,
Victorians produced a dizzying
     array of flowers with varying colors, sizes and shapes. All were
classified as Petunia hybrida, a
     species that today includes the grandiflora, multiflora and
milliflora varieties. Many petunias,
     once stars of the garden, have disappeared. For example Giant of
California, a petunia with is
     pastel-colored flowers seven inches wide, is nowhere to be found.
Still other lost varieties,
     botanists suspect, have simply been renamed. To find out, they
search through dried
     specimens collected long ago that are stored at botanical gardens.
The wild petunia varieties
     shown here are in the collection of the New York Botanical Garden,
where they share a cabinet
     with tobacco plants.  Both are members of the nightshade family,
which includes tomatoes and
     potatoes. The name petunia is derived from a Brazilian aboriginal
word for tobacco.

Then I searched on additional articles and discovered that Goldsmith
Seeds in Gilroy, CA is one of the breeder that uses Petunia
integrifolia.  Their site is quite enlightening and you can find it at:

http://www.goldseed.com/

Happy gardening!
--
Alex Teller
109 Fernwood Drive
Moraga, CA 94556-2315
E-mail: alextell@pacbell.net
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