| Scientific Name: | Nicotiana x sanderae |
| Common Name: | flowering tobacco |
| Family Name: | Solanaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Glandular hairs, Lanceolate, Oblong, Ovate, Spatulate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Green-yellow, Purple, Pink, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Plants mostly less than 40(-60)cm tall by mid-summer; basal leaves ovate, 15-25cm long x 5-12cm wide; stem leaves alternate, spoon-shaped (lower) to oblong-lanceolate (upper), 10-20cm long x 3-8cm wide; flowers salverform - funnel shaped green corolla tube opening at right angle to 5 colourful petals, ~5cm wide. | |