Tobacco

Other names

Wild Tobacco

Growth habit

Herbaceous

Perennation

Annual

Native distribution

South America to Mexico

Biocultural value

Native to South America, many North American tribes have smoked, burned or offered this plant in rituals. It has also long been smoked for pleasure.

Location

Robison Herb Garden

Source of plant

Cornell Botanic Gardens

Description

Annual, viscid-pubescent to 1.5m. Leaves ovate to ovate-obtuse or elliptic, to 30cm+; petiole unwinged. Inflorescence paniculate, lax to crowded ; flowers to 18mm, tinged yellow or green, opening during the day; calyx to 1.5cm, tubular to narrow-funnelform, dentate, teeth triangular, acute unequal; corolla to 2cm, yellow tinged green, limb to 6mm+ diamete, lobes obtuse, apex abruptly acute or obtuse; stamens 4, unequal, slightly protruding. Fruit subglobose to elliptic-ovoid, to 2cm.

USDA Hardiness Zone

8

Special characteristics

other ethnobotanical uses