Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, WNW of Euabalong, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Nombinnie Nature Reserve near Mt Hope, NSW

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, WNW of Euabalong, NSW

Common Name

Native Tobacco, Scented Tobacco, Wild Tobacco, Austral Tobacco

Family

Solanaceae

Notes

Annual forb to 1.5m tall. Leaves mostly basal, some alternating up the stems, often slightly stem-clasping, to 70mm wide, hairless to hairy. Basal leaves somewhat fleshy, flat, 10-35cm long, Stem leaves smaller, flat to linear, or absent. Flowers fragrant, tubular, the tube white to cream with green veins and purple tinges outside, with 5 white lobes, often notched, in 'panicles' at the tops of often leafy stalks arising from the base of the plant. Rare Vic.

Difficult to differentiate from Nicotiana goodspeedii . Differs from Nicotiana goodspeedii in that the basal leaves have soft hairs on the margins and main nerves and the fruiting bodies are egg-shaped.

Descriptions in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 584, and (as Nicotiana exigua) page 582

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

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_suaveolens.htm