Petunia integrifolia | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Solanales |
Family: | Solanaceae |
Genus: | Petunia |
Species: | P. integrifolia
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Binomial name | |
Petunia integrifolia | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Petunia integrifolia (syn. Petunia violacea), the violet petunia [3] or violetflower petunia, [4] is a species of wild petunia with violet-colored blooms. [5] [6] Petunia integrifolia is native to Argentina. [7] P. integrifolia bears flowers approximately 1.5 inch in diameter and the plant is typically smaller and harder to cultivate than the well-known hybrid bedding Petunia now known correctly as Petunia × atkinsiana. [8] [9]
The species was first described as Salpiglossis integrifolia by William Jackson Hooker in 1831. [10] It was transferred to the genus Petunia as P. integrifolia by Hans Schinz and Albert Thellung in 1915. [11] Petunia inflata had sometimes been considered to be a subspecies of P. integrifolia, but the two have different native ranges, with P. inflata growing in more northern areas. [12]
Petunia violacea Lindl. has been reported to be used as a hallucinogen in Ecuador, where the plant has the vernacular name shanín. The drug is said to cause sensations of levitation and flight - a type of hallucination often associated with the use of the more toxic hallucinogenic plants of the deliriant type; e.g., the tropane-containing Atropa and Hyoscyamus, active constituents of the witches' flying ointments of Medieval and Early Modern Europe. [13] [14]
Petunia integrifolia | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Solanales |
Family: | Solanaceae |
Genus: | Petunia |
Species: | P. integrifolia
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Binomial name | |
Petunia integrifolia | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Petunia integrifolia (syn. Petunia violacea), the violet petunia [3] or violetflower petunia, [4] is a species of wild petunia with violet-colored blooms. [5] [6] Petunia integrifolia is native to Argentina. [7] P. integrifolia bears flowers approximately 1.5 inch in diameter and the plant is typically smaller and harder to cultivate than the well-known hybrid bedding Petunia now known correctly as Petunia × atkinsiana. [8] [9]
The species was first described as Salpiglossis integrifolia by William Jackson Hooker in 1831. [10] It was transferred to the genus Petunia as P. integrifolia by Hans Schinz and Albert Thellung in 1915. [11] Petunia inflata had sometimes been considered to be a subspecies of P. integrifolia, but the two have different native ranges, with P. inflata growing in more northern areas. [12]
Petunia violacea Lindl. has been reported to be used as a hallucinogen in Ecuador, where the plant has the vernacular name shanín. The drug is said to cause sensations of levitation and flight - a type of hallucination often associated with the use of the more toxic hallucinogenic plants of the deliriant type; e.g., the tropane-containing Atropa and Hyoscyamus, active constituents of the witches' flying ointments of Medieval and Early Modern Europe. [13] [14]