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Scientific name:

Nicotiana tabacum

Vernacular name:

Tobacco


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Tobacco

Scientific name: Nicotiana tabacum L.

Diagnostic features
Erect annual to 2(3)m.
Leaves with winged petioles, the wings clasping stem.
Inflorescence a cymose panicle.
Calyx-lobes c. as long as -tube or slightly shorter; corolla-tube 30-55mm.
Corolla-limb 20-30mm across, lobed c.1/2 way, whitish to dingy red.

Chromosome number: (2n=48).

Habitat
Introduced-casual; rarely grown for tobacco, now rare on tips and as relic, once much commoner.

Distribution
Scattered in South England; South & Central America.

This species is keyed out on Page 3481 in the Text Key.

Nicotiana tabacum (Tobacco)
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