EPPO Global Database

• EPPO Code: NIORU
• Preferred name: Nicotiana rustica
• Authority: Linnaeus

Peru. Already in cultivation in North America at the time of arrival of the first Europeans, and the first tobacco to be taken to Europe. Cultivated in many parts of the world (producing a tobacco with a high nicotine content), but to a much reduced extent now compared with N. tabacum (q.v.). N. rustica now mainly occurs as a weed of cultivation. Introduced in Euromediterranean region, Central Asia, Western Asia, Himalayas, India, Indochina, China, Korea, Mali to Tchad, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sénégal to Nigeria, Zaïre, East Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, USA (locally in east), Mexico, Caribbean, South America (except southern cone)