Nicotiana glauca

Plant Characteristics

Origin:	✈	S America

Cultivation

Features:	✓	flowers, naturalizes
Flower features:	❀	yellow

Scientific Names

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Nicotiana glauca is a species of wild tobacco known by the common names tree tobacco and incorrectly also Mustard tree. Its leaves are attached to the stalk by petioles, and its leaves and stems are neither pubescent nor sticky like Nicotiana tabacum. It grows to heights of more than two meters.

Tree tobacco is native to South America but it is now widespread as an introduced species on other continents, and it is a common roadside weed in the southwestern United States.

ExpandRead about Nicotiana glauca in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Nicotiana glauca, Graham (N. arborea, Dietr.). Erect, tree-like, up to 20 ft. tall, glaucous-blue all over: st. branching: Lvs. long-petioled, unequally subcordate- ovate, acute, somewhat repand: fls. pedicelled, pedicels incurved in fr., in loose, terminal, bracted panicles; calyx tubular, 5-toothed. teeth acute, unequal, somewhat ciliate; corolla yellow, tube scarcely incurved, somewhat swollen above; mouth contracted, softly woolly; limb small, lobes ovate, very short, acute: caps, inclosed in the calyx. Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia. B.M. 2837. G. 26:571.—Frequently cult, for its stately habit and striking glaucous-blue foliage which sometimes develops purplish tints. It has escaped from cult. and runs wild in Texas and Calif. Usually does not bloom in the northern states. Easily grown from seed. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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