species: Nicotiana (various)
common name: flowering tobacco
family: Solanaceae
when & where encountered: Old Westbury, NY - 2013
I had previously encountered tobacco in some of its wild forms, but this was the first time I had seen it grown ornamentally. As a flower, it is really lovely. As something to smoke, maybe not so much. The genus is named for Jean Nicot, the French ambassador to Portugal who famously introduced tobacco to France in the sixteenth century.
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