Re: [Fwd: aliki question]
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: aliki question]
- From: N* T*
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:08:45 CST6CDT
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> The photo was taken by my daughter holidaying on the island of Spetses,
> Greece. She said it's flowering now in many gardens as a shrub, but has
> also escaped into ditches and empty lots where it seems to be flourishing
> without water. The silvery leaves have a bloom on them that rubs off on
> the fingers. She's collected seeds but is afraid it might be invasive.
> Anyone recognise it? Cali Doxiadis Corfu, Greece
It is Nicotiana glauca -- tree tobacco -- native to Argentina but naturalized in
low altitude parts of Greece (probably elsewhere in the Med basin too?) It's
also quite common around Iraklio (Heraklion) in Crete. It does seem to
make itself rather too much at home in this part of Crete, so I would be a bit
careful about introducing it to a new area... Still, it's an attractive plant.
Nick
Nick Turland
Flora of China Project, Missouri Botanical Garden,
P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A.
E-mail: Nicholas.Turland@mobot.org
Phone: +1 314 577 0269 Fax: +1 314 577 9438
MBG web: http://www.mobot.org
FOC web: http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/
