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
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.