| Scientific Name: | Nicotiana alata |
| Common Name: | flowering tobacco, jasmine tobacco |
| Family Name: | Solanaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Fragrance, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Basal, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Ovate, Spatulate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Green-yellow, Purple, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Plants spindly-looking, open and airy, most 1-1.2m tall by mid-summer; leaves large with winged petioles - basal leaves spatulate, 15-30cm long x 5-15cm wide, stem leaves ovate, 8-15cm long x 2-8cm wide, sessile; flowers salverform, tubes 7-9cm long, petal lobes 1.5-2cm long, open at night to release jasmine-like scent. | |