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Definition of Hybrid petunia
1. Noun. Hybrids of Petunia axillaris and Petunia integrifolia: a complex group of petunias having single or double flowers in colors from white to purple.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hybrid Petunia
Literary usage of Hybrid petunia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1842)
"... hybrid petunia, and Statice tata- rica. The manure had, as nearly as possible,
the same effects as on the annuals, with this difference, that its action ..."
2. Gardeners Chronicle, the Horticultural Trade Journal (1897)
"... accession of Her Majesty in 1837, it is not without interest to horticulturists
to recall that in that year the first hybrid Petunia was brought out. ..."