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Nicotiana tabacum - Bee feeding on a flower - Click to enlarge!

Bee feeding on a flower; Botanical Garden Hohenheim, Germany; 9/2010 © Jörn Germer

Nicotiana tabacum - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Gomoa Fetteh, Central Region, Ghana; 10/2009 © Jörn Germer

Nicotiana tabacum - Flower, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower, side view; Gomoa Fetteh, Central Region, Ghana; 10/2009 © Jörn Germer

Nicotiana tabacum - Seeds - Click to enlarge!

Seeds; Gomoa Fetteh, Central Region, Ghana; 10/2009 © Jörn Germer

Nicotiana tabacum - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Botanical Garden Hohenheim, Germany; 9/2010 © Jörn Germer

Nicotiana tabacum - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Gomoa Fetteh, Central Region, Ghana; 10/2009 © Jörn Germer

Nicotiana tabacum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Gomoa Fetteh, Central Region, Ghana; 10/2009 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1208
Date of entry: 28.11.2009
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Tobacco

German: Tabak

Mandarin: 烟草 (yan cao)

Portuguese: Erva-do-tabaco

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Solanales (101)

        Family: Solanaceae (51)(family description)

          Genus: Nicotiana (3)

            Epithet: tabacum L. (1)

tabacum => derived from an indigenous American word for tobacco smoking tools

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: pink

External links

Check for Nicotiana tabacum at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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