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Nicotiana rustica (Aztec tobacco)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Nicotiana rustica, Aztec tobacco or wild tobacco, in the sourthern part of México specifically Campeche and Yucatán, it is called Ucuch due to its mayan roots, known in South America as mapacho and in Vietnam as thuoc lao (thuốc lào), is a rainforest plant in the Solanaceae family. It is a very potent variety of tobacco. The high concentration of nicotine in its leaves makes it useful for producing pesticides.
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Infraspecies

Nicotiana angustifolia var. angustifolia
Nicotiana rustica var. brasila
Nicotiana rustica var. pavonii
Nicotiana rustica var. rustica

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [3]  All parts of the plant are poisonous;
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Annual
Pollinators [3]  Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Shrub
Usage [3]  All parts of the plant contain nicotine, this has been extracted and used as an insecticide. The dried leaves can also be used, they remain effective for 6 months after drying; The leaves have also been dried and then chewed as a stimulant or made into snuff for sniffing, or smoked. This species is more potent than N. tabacum (the species normally cultivated for cigarettes).
Height [3]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve V 1777 Spain  
Sefton Coast 11278 England, United Kingdom

Predators

Acherontia atropos (Death's-head hawk moth)[4]
Helicoverpa assulta (Oriental Tobacco Budworm)[5]
Mamestra brassicae (Cabbage Moth)[5]
Scrobipalpa aptatella (Tobacco stemborer)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0