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

Flower cluster and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Sunraysia NSW

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Tobacco Bush; Tree Tobacco

Family

Solanaceae

Notes

Introduced short lived treelike shrub to 6m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 4-23cm long, 15-80mm wide, flat, glaucous.  Flowers yellow, tubular, with five lobes, in a short 'panicle' at the top of the branches.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 582-583

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

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_glauca.htm