Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Nicotiana suaveolens
Common name
Native tobacco, Austral tobacco
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, rocky slopes and along streams. Widespread but not common.
Notes
Annual herb to 1.5 m tall. Stems and leaves hairless or variably hairy with simple hairs, occasionally white-woolly. Leaves mostly basal, some alternating up the stems, to 30 cm long, to 80 mm wide, hairless to hairy, tips pointed or blunt, often slightly stem-clasping, stalks to 16 cm long, usually narrowly winged. Basal leaves somewhat fleshy, 10-35 cm long, stem leaves smaller, spear-head shaped to linear, or absent, and more or less stalkless. Flowers fragrant, white to cream with green veins and purple tinges outside, 14–35 mm in diameter, tubular, the tube 17–55 mm long, with 5 white lobes, often notched. Flowers in open clusters. Flowers mainly spring and summer. Seed cases oval.
Nicotiana x flindersiensis is a sterile hybrid between Nicotiana glauca and Nicotiniana suavelens.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Nicotiana~suaveolens
(accessed 23 January, 2021)
This identification key and fact sheets are available as a free mobile application:
