Nicotiana tabacum

Common Tobacco

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Scientific classification
| Kingdom:  | Plantae

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Division:  | Magnoliophyta

Class:  | Magnoliopsida

Order:  | Solanales

Family:  | Solanaceae

Genus:  | Nicotiana

Species:  | N. tabacum

Binomial name
Nicotiana tabacum

Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated Tobacco, is a perennial herbaceous plant. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all plants in the Nicotiana genus, and its leaves are commercially grown in many countries to be processed into tobacco. It grows to heights between 1 to 2 metres. Research is ongoing into its ancestry among wild Nicotiana species, but it is believed to be a hybrid of Nicotiana sylvestris, Nicotiana tomentosiformis, and maybe Nicotiana otophora.[1]

N. tabacum in bloom

## References

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1. ↑ Nan Ren and Michael P. Timko (August 2001). "AFLP analysis of genetic polymorphism and evolutionary relationships among cultivated and wild Nicotiana species" (PDF). Genome. 44 (4): 559–571. PMID 11550889.

## External links

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* Growing Nicotiana species (Plot55.com)

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