Tree Tobacco: Flowering Habit

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Potatoes (Solanales)

Family:

Nightshade (Solanaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Tree Tobacco (Nicotiana glauca)

This Photo:

🔍Flowering Habit🔎

Thank you Thomas Mesaglio (TheBeachConber) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Coastal Areas and possibly elsewhere
A small tree of only about 3m tall here. Flowers are hairy, yellow, tubular, long & thin ~38mm long. The flower tips go from green to yellow with age. The leaves were very variable in length, up to ~90mm. The stems start as green & flexible, going pale brown & woody with age.
Flowers form at the end of stems.
We've been driving past this, on the roadside, for years and finally took our camera with us to get some photo's.
An environmental weed that's very woody and difficult to destroy once established.

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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