Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Nicotiana glauca
Tree Tobacco
Solanaceae
Woodland, shrubland, open areas, disturbed areas, and moist sites. Mostly Sydney area. Occasionally on the tablelands and Western Slopes.
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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