Intruder alert!

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  1. Barbara.K

    Barbara.K Gardener

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    Hello again - I've got another stranger that's appeared in my garden. It's rather fine actually, but nothing to do with me, honest. I'd appreciate an ID :scratch:[​IMG][​IMG]
     
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    It's a variety of Tobacco plant - Nicotiana not a common self-seeder.
     
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    I agree with that ... a nice intruder in my opinion ...
     
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    Well that's good to hear. I thought it had a 'touch of class'. Thank you
     
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    Does that mean you can smoke it? (legally I mean)
     
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    Its an annual - so take some seed if you like it.

    The tobacco plant is Nicotiana tabacum in which all parts contain nicotine. Yours is probably one of the bedding hybrids - but I suspect that it also contains some nicotine.
     
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    It should have a nice scent in the evenings :gnthb: - not of tobacco :hehe:
     
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    I sat in the garden yesterday and watched a bee going in and out of these 'trumpets' for about an hour - heavy smoker do you reckon?? :hehe:
     
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