Nicotiana longiflora Cav.

Longflower tobacco (en), Tabac à longues fleurs (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Solanaceae > Nicotiana

Characteristics

Annual or perennial herb, up to 1 m high; glabrescent. Leaves sessile; blade ovate to narrowly ovate, apex acute, base cuneate, margins entire. Flowers: solitary, subsessile, erect or slightly drooping; calyx tubular, toothed along rim; corolla with tube 40-115 mm long, dilated abruptly below mouth, limb ± 45 mm in diameter, deeply lobed, lobes acuminate, inner surface white to lavender, outer surface purplish; Oct.-Jan. Fruit a capsule, ± 15 mm long.
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Short-lived perennial or annual, up to 1.4 m tall, sparsely hairy, sometimes sticky. Leaves up to 300 mm long, lower elliptic-ovate with winged petioles, upper linear to lanceolate, sessile and auricled. Flowers in racemes, calyx up to 20 mm long, 10-ribbed, corolla narrowly tubular, 40-120 mm long, pale yellow, grey, purplish or greenish brown outside, with cream to lavender limb. Capsule ovoid, up to 16 mm long.
Glabrescent annual or perennial herb, 0.45-1.05 m high. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, sessile. Corolla tube 40-115 mm long, dilated abruptly below mouth, limb 45 mm across, deeply acuminately lobed. Flowers white to lavender inside, purplish grey outside.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.73 - 1.03
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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 6-8
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity 2-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

Usage

Uses environmental use gene source medicinal
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Images

Habit

Nicotiana longiflora habit picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)
Nicotiana longiflora habit picture by pedrogc -- (cc-by-sa)
Nicotiana longiflora habit picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Nicotiana longiflora leaf picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Nicotiana longiflora flower picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)
Nicotiana longiflora flower picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)
Nicotiana longiflora flower picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Nicotiana longiflora world distribution map, present in Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Canada, Namibia, Paraguay, Taiwan, Province of China, Uruguay, United States of America, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:816975-1
WFO ID wfo-0001023822
COL ID 6RY36
BDTFX ID 82653
INPN ID 611047
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Nicotiana acuta Nicotiana acutiflora Nicotiana longiflora var. acutiflora Nicotiana longiflora var. breviflora Nicotiana longiflora var. grandifolia Nicotiana longiflora