page_title: Nicotiana
section_title: Cultivation
hierarchical_section_title: Nicotiana / Cultivation
caption_attribution_description: English: Flowers of plant Nicotiana sylvestris from the Botanical Gardens of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Čeština: Květenství rostliny tabáku lesního Nicotiana sylvestris, Botanická zahrada Univerzity Karlovy Praha
context_page_description: Nicotiana is a genus of herbaceous plants and shrubs in the family Solanaceae, that is indigenous to the Americas, Australia, south west Africa and the South Pacific. Various Nicotiana species, commonly referred to as tobacco plants, are cultivated as ornamental garden plants. N. tabacum is grown worldwide for production of tobacco leaf for cigarettes and other tobacco products.
context_section_description: Several species of Nicotiana, such as N. sylvestris, N. alata 'Lime Green' and N. langsdorffii are grown as ornamental plants, often under the name of flowering tobacco. They are popular vespertines (evening bloomers), their sweet-smelling flowers opening in the evening to be visited by hawkmoths and other pollinators. In temperate climates they behave as annuals (hardiness 9a-11).
  The hybrid cultivars Domino Series  and 'Lime Green' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
  Garden varieties are derived from N. alata (e.g. 'Niki' and 'Saratoga' series) and more recently from Nicotiana x sanderae (e.g. 'Perfume' and 'Domino' series).
  The tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens) has proven to be a massive pest of many species in the genus, and has resisted many attempts at management.
caption: Nicotiana sylvestris
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