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Scientific name:

Nicotiana alata

Vernacular name:

Tobacco, Sweet


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Sweet Tobacco

Scientific name: Nicotiana alata Link & Otto

Diagnostic features
Erect annual to 1.5m.
Leaves with winged petioles, the wings clasping stem.
Inflorescence a simple raceme-like cyme.
Calyx-lobes c. as long as -tube or somewhat longer.
Corolla-tube 50-100mm.
Corolla-limb 35-60mm across, lobed 1/2 way or more, white.

Chromosome number: (2n=18).

Habitat
Introduced-casual; much grown for ornament and frequent on tips and rough ground.

Distribution
Scattered in South Britain; South America.

This species is keyed out on Page 3482 in the Text Key.

Hybrids
- Nicotiana x sanderae W. Watson (= Nicotiana alata x Nicotiana forgetiana) is grown in gardens like its parents and similarly occurs as a casual; it is intermediate in all characters, with a range of flower colours.

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