Talk:Nicotiana tabacum

Cultivar Group?

It might be that since this is cultivated only, not a wild species, that it really should be treated as a cultivar group and have a cultivar infobox instead of a taxobox. However, Nicotiana tabacum is written like a species (compare with Rosa centifolia), and I don't know if we use cultivar infoboxes with them. On the plus side, the cultivar infobox does provide a place to put the origin (which I suspect is "Americas, pre-historic" although I haven't gone source-hunting on that). Of course we could just put the origin in the text. Kingdon 04:42, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Deeper History?

It would be nice to see a deeper history of the plant before European contact (e.g., where it may have been first domesticated, the timing of its spread through the Americas, etc. TCSaint (talk) 04:01, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

That would be very good. In the German article it says that tobacco initially grew in western South America and was cultivated there first. Anybody got sources? --Maxl (talk) 11:54, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Possible copyright violation

Some of the phrases under "ethnomedicinal uses" seemed to have been more or less copied and pasted from Maud Grieve's A Modern Herbal, so I have deleted them.--Frglz (talk) 03:50, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

More or less? Either they have or they haven't. There's no between. :) --Maxl (talk) 11:51, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Ethnomedical uses?

There is a list of ethnomedical uses in the article which still is almost unsourced. I wouldn't outrule that the things mentioned are true but I think sources would be fine. --Maxl (talk) 11:56, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Flowers

Something is wrong with the last line of this section. I have no clue what should be corrected there. Please help!

Ed8r (talk) 17:30, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Name

You explain the "nicotine" part but not the "tobacco" part. 67.85.243.64 (talk) 04:12, 16 June 2020 (UTC)