Eli5- I collected seeds from my black petunia and the resulting flowers were shades of green, yellow, pink, white, purple, black, and striped . How?

Question

[a picture of the flowers](https://imgur.com/gallery/x9mwUQ3)

In: Biology

Answer 1

The petunias sold as plants are hybrids of petunia between P. axillaris and P. integrifolia. These hybrids don’t breed true to form, like many plants.