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a beauty that ate tobacco's family tree and came out smelling like dessert at night
means A popular trumpet-shaped garden flower, prized for its showy, often fragrant blooms in a wide range of colors.
from The name comes from French 'petun,' an old word for tobacco, which the French borrowed from Tupi-Guarani 'pety' (the tobacco plant) by way of Portuguese contact in Brazil. Botanists noticed the flower's close kinship to tobacco — both belong to the nightshade family, Solanaceae — and so named the genus 'Petunia,' literally 'the tobacco-relative,' in the early 19th century.
- toxic kin
- Botanical cousin to tobacco and deadly nightshade
- night perfume
- Many varieties release scent only after dark
- name origin
- From Tupi word for tobacco, petun
- sticky defense
- Leaves trap small insects on glandular hairs
- space flowers
- Petunia seeds have orbited Earth aboard satellites
petunia hybrids — petunias are flowering plants in the solanaceae family, with thousands of cultivated varieties developed since the 1830s from south american species
petunia pig character — petunia is a cartoon character in looney tunes who first appeared in 1937