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Nicotiana alata
Also called Sweet Tobacco, Persian Tobacco, Flowering Tobacco, Winged Tobacco
Nicotiana alata is a species of tobacco grown mainly as an ornamental for its night-scented, tubular flowers, with many cultivars and hybrids. It is grown as an annual in most climates and does best in full sun to partial shade with consistently moist soil.
Nicotiana alata is a species of tobacco. It is called jasmine tobacco, sweet tobacco, winged tobacco, tanbaku, and Persian tobacco.
Nictoiana alata is mainly grown as an ornamental plant; numerous cultivars and hybrids are derived from it. In Iran, narghila tobacco is sometimes produced from N. alata; it is not chopped like cigarette tobacco, but broken up by hand.
Seedlings do best when gradually introduced to outdoor environment over the course of a week. Plants tend to self-sow. (Color may be the original or occasionally several colors on one plant).
Deadhead spent flower stalks for best blooming results.
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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.
