Tree tobacco
Nicotiana glauca
Family · Solanaceae · Can kill
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The blue-leaved shrub with tubular yellow flowers that grows on any southern rubble, flowering all year. South American, invasive, and deadly if the leaves are mistaken for a vegetable.
Town and roadside · Roadsides and waste ground · Streams and ditches
Also known asBrazilian tree tobacco
How to tell it
Oval, blue-green, waxy hairless leaves. Long tubular yellow flowers, hanging. A tall, gangly shrub, often alone on abandoned ground.
What it is confused with
No dangerous lookalikes known in the Iberian Peninsula.
What it is for
None
It contains anabasine, a paralysing alkaloid, and there have been deaths in the Peninsula from confusing the leaves with wild spinach or chard.
The law says
An invasive alien species in Portugal. Do not plant or propagate it.
Where it occurs
Each square is an area with recorded observations of this plant. The lighter background is the set of areas where any of the entries has been observed, and serves as a reference. Note what this is not: it is not where the plant lives, it is where people record it, so trails and towns always look fuller than the mountains. Data from GBIF.
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