what sort of plant is a calibrachoa cabaret(common name please)?

Question

I have bought a calibrachoa cabaret, upon closer inpection I realise it is not a petunia. Can anyone tell me it's common name?

Answer 1

The Cabaret Calibrachoa, a genus of Petunia look-alikes. These low growers, sometimes referred to as trailing Petunias, have fine foliage, and 1in, trumpet-shaped blooms that open nonstop until hard frost. They are usually called Cabaret Whites, Cabaret Purple, Cabaret reds, etc. depending on flower color.

Answer 2

Petunias were reclassified into two groups. The Calibrachoa was split off of the genus Petunia.

1803 Jussieu classed them as two type species
P. parviflora and P. nyctaginiflora [= P. axillaris]

1990 Wijsman separated the genus Calibrachoa C. parviflora from the genus petunia leaving P. nyctaginiflora. This work is based on chromosome counts and breeding differences. But Wijsman left a dozen species outside of the new split. Nine of these have been determined Calibrachoa.
The remaining three are still to be determined.
The Calibrachoa known as 'Million Bells' was developed from a South American species collected in 1988 by a Japanese company called Suntory Ltd.

Petunias have 14 chromosomes and Calibrachoa has 18 and both are in the Solanaceae family.

Answer 3

Yeah it's not a petunia but looks a bit like one. I don't think it's got a common name other than just calibrachoa or cabaret, or sometimes eg. calibrachoa pink if the flowers are pink etc.

Answer 4

It is a spectacular hanging basket type plant with trumpet-like flowers. The common name is, unimaginately, calibrachoa.

Answer 5

It type of deadly nightshade i dont think it got a common name in english.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibrachoa