nicotiana

An important point here is that traditional use of nicotiana rustica was more far more widespread than nicotiana tabacum.

There is one species of Nicotiana native from Africa (Nicotiana africana).

For example moth larvae ( Manduca sexta ) feeds on tobacco ( Nicotiana attenuata ) plants.

This said, finding a wild Nicotiana in Egypt today is a childs game.

I really enjoyed my failed attempts at growing amaranth and Nicotiana rusticum when I lived in Austin...

The plants we use are genetically modified, and btw many plants produce pesticides naturally - such as Chrysanthemum or Nicotiana plants.

Is a Solanaceae also, so is wickedly toxic; and the Nicotiana like flowers, aren't so flamboyant as in Nicotiana, but without any of the legal problems that tobacco and easier to care for.

I occasionally smoke Nicotiana Rustica, or farmers tobacco; which is plenty stronger than regular tobacco.

Like I'm sure you could grow some sort of nicotiana in BC, but it's not exactly North Carolina, and he's not exactly Thoreau.

Lately I've been growing my own Nicotiana Rustica [0], which contains plenty more nicotine than regular tobacco but is nowhere near as addictive.

I never did try to smoke a garden grown nicotiana.

This paper mentions tobacco relative Nicotiana benthamiana has a large biomass yield with high density growth - optimal for greenhouse in only a few weeks so it would scale fast.

I assumed, without access to the article, that this release is using "Tobacco" loosely to mean "some sort of Nicotiana", likely Nicotiana Benthamiana.

The prologue to Lord of the Rings calls it "a variety probably of Nicotiana", the narrator refers to it directly as tobacco in "The Two Towers", and in The Hobbit it's exclusively referred to as tobacco.

Its a plant, and: "Tobacco is the easiest land plant in which to manipulate Rubisco and so serves as the test case for developing a more efficient Rubisco that can be transferred to more agronomically relevant species, Gunn said." Call it Nicotiana instead!

(edit: I think he even pins it to "a plant of the genus Nicotiana" or words to that effect in the LotR appendices) Peter Jackson's presentation of it in the movies though...

Wild tobacco (Nicotiana rustica) contains around 9% nicotine whereas domesticated tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) only contains around 2%.

Given that Tolkien explicitly calls pipe-weed a variety of Nicotiana, smoking it would tend to suppress the appetite.

Nicotiana ) [1] - also a Nightshade and probably the one with the largest body count of them all.