Tobacco leaves

Title Info
Common name Tobacco
Scientific name Nicotiana tabacum
Taxonomic group Solanaceae
Source Dan L. Perlman
Economic botany Industrial products
Date 1997
Location Amherst,Massachusetts,USA,North America
Tobacco leaves drying, <i>Nicotiana tabacum</i>
Related materials: Tobacco

Drying tobacco leaves. A New World plant, tobacco spread rapidly around the world as trade between the Old World and the New World developed. Here is a special drying barn for tobacco leaves that will be used in making cigars.