West Pottsgrove, PA (Zone 6b) | January 2007 | neutral
Also known as Large Leaf Tobacco, seeds for this plant were somehow obtained by Englishman John Rolfe around the year 1610 in an attempt ...Read Moreat commercial propagation at Jamestown, Virginia. The plant is a South American native, and at that time S. America was controlled by Spain, and unauthorized distribution of Tobacco seeds was punishable by death.
This plant played a crucial role in America's economic development, and the colonies Maryland,Virginia, and North Carolina required people to accept Tobacco as currency. Paper currency in America was created to represent quantities of Tobacco in warehouses.
Intensive farming robbed the soil of nutrients and caused soil run-off and river siltation, which drove the English settlers further inland.
According to the Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas, the USDA, and other sources, it is not a U.S. native plant.
Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is naturalized in many states including Texas, California, Oklaohoma, Louisiana, Virginia, north Carolina, So...Read More
Also known as Large Leaf Tobacco, seeds for this plant were somehow obtained by Englishman John Rolfe around the year 1610 in an attempt ...Read More