| Scientific Name: | Nicotiana sylvestris |
| Common Name: | flowering tobacco |
| Family Name: | Solanaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Fragrance, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glandular hairs, Oblong, Spatulate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves coarse, oblong to spatulate, sessile with a clasping base, up to 37cm long x 18cm wide; florets white, strongly fragrant (especially at night), in pendant clusters with very long-tubed corollas, up to 7cm long. | |