Nicotiana facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Nicotiana
Flowering Nicotiana tabacum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Solanales
Family:	Solanaceae
Subfamily:	Nicotianoideae
Tribe:	Nicotianeae
Genus:	Nicotiana L.
Species
Many
Synonyms
Amphipleis Raf. Blenocoes Raf. Dittostigma Phil. Eucapnia Raf. Langsdorfia Raf. Lehmannia Spreng. Perieteris Raf. Polydiclis (G.Don) Miers Sairanthus G.Don Siphaulax Raf. Tabacum Gilib. Tabacus Moench Waddingtonia Phil.

Nicotiana is a group of plants, also known as tobacco plants. They can be herbaceous plants (plants with soft stems) or shrubs (woody plants smaller than trees). You can find them growing naturally in places like the Americas, Australia, southwest Africa, and the South Pacific.

Many Nicotiana species are grown in gardens because they have pretty flowers. One very well-known species is N. tabacum. This plant is grown all over the world for its leaves, which are used to make tobacco.

Images for kids

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  Cross section of Nicotiana tabacum corolla, showing pistil and stamens

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  Illustration with photographs of tobacco leaves infested by Lasioderma serricorne (tobacco beetles), from Runner, G. A., The tobacco beetle (1919), Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Biodiversity Heritage Library

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  Female specimen of Manduca sexta (five-spotted hawkmoth)

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  Nicotiana sylvestris

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  Nicotiana alata

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  Nicotiana langsdorffii

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  Nicotiana obtusifolia

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  Nicotiana × sanderae ornamental cultivar

See also

In Spanish: Nicotiana para niños