Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Nicotiana glauca
Common name
Tree Tobacco
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, open areas, disturbed areas, and moist sites. Mostly Sydney area. Occasionally on the tablelands and Western Slopes.
Notes
Introduced short lived treelike shrub to 6 m tall. Stems hairless, often glaucous. New growth very sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4-35 cm long, 5-80 mm wide, glaucous, hairless, tips pointed or blunt, stalks usually less than 6 cm long, cylindrical or narrowly winged near the leaf blades. Flowers yellow, 8–13 mm in diameter, tubular, the tube 20–40 mm long, with five lobes. Flowers in a short branched cluster at the top of the branches. Flowering: throughout the year but chiefly spring.
Hybridises with Nicotiana goodspeedii.
Nicotiana x flindersiensis is a sterile hybrid between Nicotiana glauca and Nicotiana suavelens.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Nicotiana~glauca
(accessed 23 January, 2021)
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