Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Closed flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Rosette. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Native Tobacco

Family

Solanaceae

Notes

Forb to 1.3m tall.  Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, slightly stem-clasping, to 20cm long, to 80mm wide, flat, sticky hairy.  Stem leaves with basal lobes. Flowers pink or white outside, white inside, tubular, with 5 scalloped lobes, in 'panicles' at the tops of the flower stems which arise from the base of the plant.  Flowers which self-pollinate without opening are common.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Nicotiana~occidentalis

Online fact sheet published by the South Australian Herbarium:  http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/efsa/lucid/Solanaceae/Nicotiana%20species/key/Australian%20Nicotiana%20species/Media/Html/Nicotiana_occidentalis_subsp._obliqua.htm