Helsinki Petunias

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White petunias, Petunia x hybrida.

Photographed on Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland.

Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)

Petunias are trumpet shaped flowering plants that are endemic to South America. Botanically speaking, tobacco, tomato, potato, and petunia are all in the family Solanaceae. These popular flowers got their name from the French, which took the word petun -- 'tobacco' -- from a Tupi-Guarani language.

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