Our 2025 EFN seed catalogue is now live! Featuring over 130 new varieties and over 640 total varieties, sourced from over 50 different growers from across the country. Huge thanks to all of our growers, volunteers, and to our stellar seed-house team in Minnesota! Each of you make this work possible.

Jasmine Tobacco

Jasmine Tobacco

$3.75 Sale

Nicotiana alata

Origin: South America

Improvement status: Cultivar

Seeds per packet: ~100

Germination tested 11/2020: 90%

Life cycle: Annual (tropical perennial)

Also known as winged tobacco, sweet tobacco, Persian tobacco, or tanbaku, this tropical perennial native to South America is widely grown as a fragrant ornamental flower and pollinator attractor. Its intoxicating scent really makes itself known at night, when night-flying sphinx moths and other wonders of the natural world follow their noses to its long tubular flowers. We recommend planting near a patio or beneath a bathroom window or somewhere else you'd like to enjoy a sweet, jasmine-like aroma. The smeel can easily travel ten yards. The white flowers droop a bit during the day, but perk up at night and practically glow in the moonlight — which no doubt helps moths and other pollinators find them. In Iran, the leaves are used for narghila (or "hookah") tobacco. Like other tobaccos, it is poisonous and can be made into a powerful insecticide as well. A good option for container gardeners. Self sows easily. Our seed was grown by Kass McKinnon and Clint Freund in Milaca, Minnesota.