tobacco Solanaceae Nicotiana
tomentosa Ruiz & Pav.
symbol: NITO
Leaf: Alternate, simple, ovate, 6 inches long, serrate margin, acuminate tip, fuzzy green above and below.
Flower: Specious is monoecious; flowers trumpet-shaped, red to pink with fused corollas, borne on a loose inflorescence.
Fruit: A brown urn-shaped semi-woody capsule to 1/2 inch.
Twig: Marginally woody, green and tomentose.
Bark: Gray-brown.
Form: A loosely branched shrub to 10 feet.