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Tree Tobacco

(Nicotiana glauca)
 
Tree tobacco shrub with clusters of narrow yellow tubular flowers hanging from green branches
Pressed specimen of tree tobacco showing yellow tubular flowers, seed pods, and elongated gray-green leaves next to a ruler for scale
 
Description: 

Shrub or small tree to 20 feet that grows wild in Arizona below 3,000 feet elevation. The leaves are bluish green, long stalked, oval and smooth up to 7 inches long. The pale yellow, tubular flowers are up to 2 inches long and are in dense loose clusters at the ends of the branches.

Poisonous Parts: 
Entire Plant