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Nicotiana tabacum L.
Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is a perennial herbaceous plant. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all plants in the Nicotiana genus, and its leaves are commercially grown in many countries to be processed into tobacco. It grows to heights between 1 to 2 metres.
Nicotiana tabacum Linné is a robust annual little branched herb up to 2.5m high with large green leaves and long trumpet shaped white-pinkish flowers. All parts are sticky, covered with short viscid-glandular hairs, which exude a yellow secretion containing nicotine.
Tobacco contains the following phytochemicals: Nicotine, Anabasine (an alkaloid similar to the nicotine but less active), Glucosides (tabacinine, tabacine), 2,3,6-Trimethyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, 2-Methylquinone, 2-Napthylamine, Propionic acid, Anatalline, Anthalin, Anethole, Acrolein, Anatabine, Cembrene, Choline, Nicotelline, Nicotianine, Pyrene.
Nicotiana tabacum L.
Research products of Nicotiana tabacum L.
Catalog Product Name CAS Number Manual
CFN99512L-Nicotine54-11-5  PDF
CFN98550Anethole104-46-1  PDF
CFN90454Solanesol13190-97-1  PDF
CFN99926Nicotinamide98-92-0  PDF
CFN80056Nornicotine494-97-3  n/a
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