Tex-Mex Tobacco
Nicotiana plumbaginifolia
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Tex-Mex Tobacco
Identify Tex-Mex Tobacco by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Solanaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Tex-Mex Tobacco.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Nicotiana plumbaginifolia
- Genus
- Nicotiana
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Native to
- Tropical America
- Distribution
- Naturalized in Tropics
- Found in India
- West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Bihar, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chandigarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Punjab, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Typical of the Solanaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Tex-Mex Tobacco itself; the rest are typical of the Solanaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Bengali
- বন তামাক
About Tex-Mex Tobacco
Tex-Mex Tobacco (Nicotiana plumbaginifolia) belongs to the Solanaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and 21 other states. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Solanaceae
Nightshade/Tomato family
Tex-Mex Tobacco belongs to the Solanaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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