Tobacco
Nicotiana rustica
Solanaceae
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
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