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I found this:

Nicotiana alata
Nicotiania, also referred to as Night-scented Tobacco or Flowering  
Tobacco, is usually grown as an annual for it's sweet-scented, white  
flowers that open only in the evening or during the cooler parts of  
the day. A native of Brazil, it was introduced into garden cultivation  
in England in 1829.

It smelled so good I'd roll in it.


On Jun 24, 2008, at 7:53 AM, paxamicus AT earthlink.net wrote:

> I've seen Flowering Nicotiana, it smells absolutely heavenly. I have
> no idea if it's smoking tobacco, though.
>
>
> > The native Americans used and cultivated 'nicotiana rustica' but
> > modern
> > commercial tobacco is 'nicotiana tabacum' and that has been
> > genetically selected
> > for centuries to make it into really nasty stuff.  It isn't a
> > continuous history.
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