Flowering Tobacco

Flowering Tobacco

Flowering Tobacco Nicotiana belongs to the same genus as the commercial tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum. The plants originally came from tropical regions of America and they are not resistant to frost. Some species are grown as garden ornamentals and the leaves of N. tabacum are dried to make tobacco or used as a source of the poisonous alkaloid nicotine, which is used as an insecticide. [CH] {FW}