petunia
grrlscientist | May 25, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Purple petunia, (Petunia x hybrida).
Photographed while walking to the library along Amsterdam Avenue
on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, NYC.
Sorry, this isn't the best picture I've ever taken.
Image: GrrlScientist, 22 May 2009 [larger view].
Petunias are trumpet-shaped flowers produced by plant species in the genus, Petunia. Petunia species are native to South America. The precise relationships between and among petunias are still not clear, and the entire family, Solanaceae, is reclassified as new information…