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Nicotiana acuminata

(Many-Flower Tobacco, Manyflower Tobacco, Tabaco Silvestre)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Acuminate Tobacco, Many-Flower Tobacco, Manyflower Tobacco, Tabaco Silvestre

Description

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Family Solanaceae

Herbs, shrubs , small trees , or climbers . Stems sometimes prickly, rarely thorny; hairs simple , branched, or stellate , sometimes glandular . Leaves alternate, solitary or paired , simple or pinnately compound , without stipules; leaf blade entire , dentate , lobed , or divided . Inflorescences terminal , overtopped by continuing axes, appearing axillary , extra-axillary , or leaf opposed, often apparently umbellate , racemose, paniculate , clustered, or solitary flowers, rarely true cymes, sometimes bracteate . Flowers mostly bisexual , usually regular, 5-merous, rarely 4- or 6-9-merous. Calyx mostly lobed. Petals united . Stamens as many as corolla lobes and alternate with them, inserted within corolla, all alike or 1 or more reduced; anthers dehiscing longitudinally or by apical pores . Ovary 2-5-locular; placentation mostly axile ; ovules usually numerous . Style 1. Fruiting calyx often becoming enlarged, mostly persistent . Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds with copious endosperm; embryo mostly curved .

About 95 genera with 2300 species: best represented in western tropical America, widespread in temperate and tropical regions ; 20 genera (ten introduced ) and 101 species in China.

Some species of Solanaceae are known in China only by plants cultivated in ornamental or specialty gardens: Atropa belladonna Linnaeus, Cyphomandra betacea (Cavanilles) Sendtner, Brugmansia suaveolens (Willdenow) Berchtold & Presl, Nicotiana alata Link & Otto, and Solanum jasminoides Paxton.Zhi-Yun Zhang, Anmin Lu & William G. D'Arcy "Solanaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 300. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Genus Nicotiana

Herbs, shrubs , or small trees ; pubescence of simple and glandular hairs . Leaves petiolate or sessile, entire or subentire . Inflorescences paniculate , racemose, or reduced to solitary flowers; peduncle mostly erect ; bracts mostly present. Flowers sometimes showy, mostly fragrant, zygomorphic, 4- or 5-merous, pedicellate . Calyx regular or irregular, tubular or tubular-campanulate, lobed . Corolla tubular, funnelform , or salverform ; tube lobed to subentire. Stamens inserted below middle of corolla tube; filaments slender; anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Disc ringlike, nectariferous . Ovary 2-locular. Stigma 2-lobed. Fruiting calyx persistent , slightly inflated , partially or completely enveloping fruit. Fruit a dry capsule dehiscing by apical valves . Seeds numerous , minute; embryo erect or slightly bent; cotyledons linear .

About 95 species: Africa, Americas, Australia, and Oceania; three species are cultivated in China as drug plants or as ornamentals , at least one is naturalized ."Nicotiana". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 331. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Physical Description

Habit: Forb/herb

Flowers: Bloom Period: March, April, May, June. • Flower Color: near white, white

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 36-48" tall.

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Growth

Culture: Space 24-36" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Nicotiana acuminata (Graham) Hook.
  2. Petunia acuminata

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication : Bot. Mag. 56: t. 2919. 1829

Name verified on 08-Dec-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Jun-2005

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Nicotiana

There are approximately 432 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

N. 'Avalon Bright Pink' · N. 'Avalon Peach' · N. 'Avalon Pink' · N. 'Avalon Red' · N. 'Avalon Salmon' · N.'Domino Antique Shades' (Antique Shades Nicotiana) · N. 'Fragrant Cloud' · N. 'Hopleys' · N. 'Lime Green' · N. 'Merlin Peach' · N. 'Perfume Lime' (Flowering Tobacco) · N. 'Perfume Red' (Flowering Tobacco) · N. 'Seigrande' · N. 'Seisuave' · N. 'Seiverde' · N. 'Sissinghurst Green' · N. 'Stonecrop Mauve' (Flowering Tobacco) · N. 'Tinkerbell' · N. acaulis · N. acuminata (Many-Flower Tobacco) · N. acuminata var. acuminata · N. acuminata var. cirrhoides · N. acuminata var. compacta · N. acuminata var. multiflora · N. acuminata var. multiflora (Phil.) Reiche (Manyflower Tobacco) · N. acuminata var. parviflora · N. acuminata var. sileniflora · N. acuta · N. acutiflora · N. acutifolia · N. africana · N. alata (Flowering Tobacco) · N. alata'Domino Red' (Domino Red Flowering Tobacco) · N. alata 'Domino Salmon Pink' (Flowering Tobacco) · N. alata 'Domino White' · N. alata 'Grandiflora' · N. alata 'Hummingbird Appleblossom' (Flowering Tobacco) · N. alata 'Hummingbird Deep Rose' (Flowering Tobacco) · N. alata 'Hummingbird Purple Bicolor' (Flowering Tobacco) · N. alata 'Hybrids' · N. alata 'Nicki Lime' · N. alata 'Perfume Mix' (Flowering Tobacco) · N. alata 'Saratoga Red' (Flowering Tobacco) · N. alata f. rubella · N. alata Link & Otto 'Domino-serie F1 f. Farbenmischung' · N. alata Link & Otto 'Fragrant Delight' · N. alata Link & Otto 'Lime Green' (Flowering Tobacco) · N. alata Link & Otto 'Sperlings Brasilia' · N. alata Link & Otto 'Starship-Serie f.Mischung' · N. alata × mutabilis · N. alba · N. alipes · N. alpina · N. alpina var. deserticola · N. alpina var. patagonica · N. ameghinoi · N. amplexicaulis · N. andicola · N. angustifolia · N. angustifolia var. crispa · N. angustifolia var. parviflora · N. anisandra · N. anisoloba · N. arborea · N. arentsii · N. asiatica · N. attenuata (Coyote Tabacco) · N. auriculata · N. australasiae · N. Avalon Series · N. axillaris · N. axillaris var. nyctaginiflora · N. axillaris var. propinqua · N. azambujae · N. benavidesii · N. benthamiana · N. berteroana · N. bigelovi · N. bigelovii var. bigelovii · N. bonariensis · N. brachysolen · N. brasilia · N. brasiliensis · N. breviflora · N. breviloba · N. buccinans · N. burbidgeae · N. burbidgei · N. caesia · N. californica · N. capensis · N. cardiophylla · N. caudata · N. caudigera · N. cavanillesii · N. cavanillesii var. noctiflora · N. cavanillesii var. typica · N. cavicola · N. cerinthoides · N. ceryntoides

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 07, 2007:

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Footnotes

Last Revised: 2008-09-29