Re: [Fwd: aliki question]
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- Subject: Re: [Fwd: aliki question]
- From: L* C*
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:08:16 -0700
Here in Southern Califrnia it is pretty invasive, and hard to get rid of
once it has made it's way in....
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Laura Cooper
> From: "Nick Turland" <nturland@LEHMANN.MOBOT.ORG>
> Reply-To: nturland@LEHMANN.MOBOT.ORG
> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:08:45 CST6CDT
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: aliki question]
>
>> 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
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