The difference between morning glory and petunia

Morning glory, also known as morning glory, trumpet flower, Ginjiao Lazi, morning glory, Qin Niangzi, etc., are common vine flowers in summer and autumn. Petunia, also known as shuttlecock flower, dwarf trumpet, sweet potato flower, etc., is widely popular in South America and is somewhat similar to morning glory in appearance. Let's take a look at the difference between morning glory and petunia.

The difference of families and genera between morning glory and petunia

1. Morning glory: morning glory belongs to the annual trailing herbaceous flowers of the plant kingdom, angiosperm phylum, dicotyledonous class, chrysanthemum subclass, Solanaceae, Convolvulaceae, sweet potato family and Petunia.

2. Petunia: Petunia belongs to the perennial herbs of plant kingdom, angiosperm phylum, dicotyledonous class, synpetal subclass, tube flower order, solanaceous suborder, Solanaceae, Artemisia, Pigeonium.

The difference in appearance between morning glory and petunia

1. Morning glory: inverted pubescent and mixed with inverted or spreading hirsute on morning glory stem, leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular, middle lobe oblong or ovoid, leaf surface or sparse or densely stiff pilose. Flowers axillary, single or usually 2 inserted on top of peduncle, peduncle of different length. Corolla funnelform, blue-purple or purplish red, Corolla tube light. Capsule subglobose, seeds ovate-trigonous, ca. 6 mm, dark brown or beige, brown tomentose.

2. Petunia: the petunia plant is 1580 cm tall, and there are also tufted and creeping types, with oval or oval leaves, which can blossom in the same year after sowing. The flowering period is up to several months. The Corolla is trumpet-shaped, and the flower shape is single, double, folded or irregularly serrated. The flower color is red, white, pink, purple and a variety of spots, reticulation, stripes, etc., the seeds are very small, and a thousand seeds weigh about 0.1 grams.

Differences in habits between morning glory and petunia

1. Morning glory: morning glory is a kind of flower with strong natural nature. it likes mild climate, sufficient sunlight and ventilated environment of humidity. morning glory also has strong adaptability to soil, is more resistant to drought, salinity, and is not afraid of high temperature and heat. It is a deep-rooted plant, and the soil should be deep.

2. Petunia: petunia likes warm and sunny environment, can not tolerate frost and fear rain and waterlogging, the suitable temperature for growth is 13: 18 ℃, winter temperature is 4: 10 ℃, if the plant growth stops below 4 ℃, summer can withstand the high temperature of more than 35 ℃, it is suitable to use loose, fertile and well-drained sandy loam. Petunia is a long sunshine plant, which requires sufficient sunshine during the growing period. under normal light conditions, it takes about 100 days from sowing to flowering.

The difference of flower and color between morning glory and petunia

1. Morning glory: morning glory is bright and beautiful, the common colors are white, red, pink, blue, purple and so on, the color is related to heredity. At the same time, morning glory often changes color, purple morning glory sometimes turns blue, sometimes red, discoloration is caused by a gene that causes changes in the pH of cell vacuoles.

2. Petunia: petunia has large and many flowers, blooming, long flowering period, rich colors, suitable climate or greenhouse cultivation can blossom in four seasons, the flowers are purple, bright red, peach red, pure white, meat color and a variety of striped varieties (red and white stripes, light blue red veins, peach red white stripes, etc.), generally will not change color.