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Nicotiana glauca R.C.Graham


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Nicotiana glauca

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Leaves
20 Mar 2007

Nicotiana glauca

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Leaves
20 Mar 2007

Nicotiana glauca

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Habit
20 Sep 2013

Nicotiana glauca

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Fruit
20 Sep 2013

Nicotiana glauca

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Flowers
20 Sep 2013



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. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website)
Link(s) African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science
Kew Herbarium Catalogue
BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium
Züricher Herbarien
iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer)
iNaturalist (Namibia)
iNaturalist (southern Africa)
Flora of Zimbabwe
Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie
Tree Atlas of Namibia
Content last updated: 18 Apr 2024


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