Flower. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flower. Photo: Russell Best, Wyperfeld National Park, Vic

Flowering plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowering plant. Photo: Russell Best, Wyperfeld National Park, Vic

Rosette. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Velvet Tobacco

Family

Solanaceae

Notes

Annual forb to 1.5m tall.  Leaves mostly basal, few alternating up the stems, stem clasping, flat, to 28cm long, to 80mm wide, velvety, usually sticky.  Flowers white, tubular, with 5 notched lobes, in a loose open arrangement at the tops of the flowering stems. 

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 584

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

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_velutina.htm