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Debney's Tobacco

Nicotiana forsteri

Debney's Tobacco
Photo: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 3.0

Debney's Tobacco is a small annual wild tobacco native to eastern Australia, Lord Howe Island and New Caledonia. It is grown as an ornamental or in gardens for its flowers and is easy to raise from seed in warm, sunny conditions.

Family
Solanaceae (Nightshade family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, moderately fertile garden soil or a standard potting mix.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Easy
Safety
Toxic: All parts contain nicotine and other tobacco alkaloids, which are harmful if swallowed.
Native range
NC. & E. Queensland to E. New South Wales, Lord Howe I., New Caledonia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Nicotiana forsteri (syn. Nicotiana debneyi) is a species of wild tobacco in the family Solanaceae, native to Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island (all part of Australia) and New Caledonia. It is a tetraploid.

Other Nicotiana plants

Manyflower tobacco · Jasmine tobacco · Nicotiana benthamiana · Tree tobacco · Langsdorff's tobacco · Nicotiana mutabilis · Tobacco · Aztec tobacco · South American tobacco · Cultivated tobacco · Tobacco

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nicotiana forsteri 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.

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