Nicotiana noctiflora
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Nicotiana noctiflora, Hook. (N. longiflora noctiflora, Voss). Herbaceous, perennial, glandular-viscid, hairs appressed: st. 2-3 ft. tall, slender, branching: lvs. petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, sinuate or undulate-plicate, the lower oblong-obtuse, the upper nearly sessile, linear- lanccolate, acute: fls. pedicellate, horizontal, in terminal panicles; calyx tubular, with 5 unequal, narrow, lanceolate, acute teeth; corolla salverform, night-opening, fragrant, greenish purple without, white within, 3-4 times longer than the calyx; tube cylindric; lobes equal obcordate, emarginate, oblong; nectar-ring orange, thickened: caps, longer than the calyx. Argentina and Chile. B.M. 2785. Var. albiflora, Comes, has the fls. nearly glabrous; glaucous, and greenish white or sometimes pure white without instead of purplish, or sometimes with a purplish vein in each corolla-lobe. Argentina.—Very decorative. Intro, into U. S. from Italy in 1908.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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