Nicotiana glauca
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20 Mar 2007
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20 Mar 2007
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Full name: | Nicotiana glauca R.C.Graham |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Jan twak, Wilde tabak, Volstruisgifboom |
| English common name(s): | Wild tobacco, Mexican tobacco, Coneton, Mustard tree, Tree tobacco, Blue-green nicotiana |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Alien |
| Description: | Hairless, succulent, short-lived shrub or small tree, to 6 m. Young growth blue-green, sometimes with a waxy bloom. Leaves broadly lanceolate to elliptic or spathulate, thickly-textured, glaucous or green; petiole not winged. Flowers erect or pendent, in loose panicle-like inflorescences. Corolla 3-4 cm long, green, becoming yellow or orange, tube narrow, with a slight swelling near the apex and constricted slightly above and below the swelling. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, 8-12 mm long, hairless, splitting above into 4 valves. |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iSpot: 165627 Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 02 Dec 2012 |
