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Characteristics
Bloom Time
Jun, Jul, Aug, Dec
Plant Type
Herb/Forb, Poisonous, Shrub, Tree, Shrub or tree.
Lifespan
Perennial, Woody
Flower
Flowers tubular, cream or yellow-green, 5-lobed at top, Flowers erect to ± pendulous, in broad, flat, loose, paniculiform inflorescences 6–15 cm long, at the ends of the branches and in the axils below; bracts and bracteoles small, subulate, ephemeral; pedicels 5–10 mm long, slender, later markedly thickened distally, 11–14 mm long and incurved in fruit. Flowers erect to ± pendulous, ephemeral.
Fruit
Egg-shaped, two-valved capsule, 0.5- 0.75 inches long and slightly longer than the persistent papery calyx. It produces a large number of tiny seeds, which can be dispersed by wind and water., Capsules brown, ellipsoid or ovoid, 0.8–1.2 × 5–8 mm, glabrous, dehiscing by four glabrous smooth valves, subtended by accrescent glabrescent calyx
Benefits
Attracts
Bees
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
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Taxonomy
Order
Solanales
Family
Solanaceae
Genus
Nicotiana