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Lobelia nicotianifolia is a wild shrubby species of the Campanulaceae family, native to wet tropical areas from India to southern China and Peninsular Malaysia, and it is not usually grown as a garden or houseplant. It is known as wild tobacco because its leaves resemble tobacco, and it is poisonous.
Lobelia nicotianifolia is a species of flowering plant with a distribution primarily across India and Sri Lanka. It is commonly called wild tobacco, because the leaves resemble tobacco leaves. It is a poisonous plant.
Lobelia nicotianifolia is used in India to treat bronchitis, asthma, and insect and scorpion bites and to induce nausea and vomiting.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lobelia nicotianifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
