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Flowering Tobacco

Nicotiana sylvestris is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, known by the common names woodland tobacco, flowering tobacco, and South American tobacco. It is a biennial or short-lived perennial plant in the tobacco genus Nicotiana, native to the Andes region in Argentina and Bolivia, in South America.

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Taxonomy

Scientific: Nicotiana noctiflora
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Nicotiana
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Solanales

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