Strongly scented, bell-shaped flowers with waxy textured petals, are followed by bright red berries. These appear on slender, upright to gently arching stems, which arise from amongst the lush green foliage.

Nicotiana rustica, known in South America as Mapacho and in Vietnam as Thuoc Lao (thuốc lào), is a plant in the Solanaceae family. It is a very potent variety of tobacco. Rustica is also used for entheogenic purposes by South American shamans.

Used for the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes. Has a green leaf, a cylindrical shape with a height of 150-160 plants cm. The number of days from germination until tender seedlings in greenhouses (cold ridge) is 47 days.

Height of the stalk with inflorescence, leaf number, length of the middle belt leaves and dry mass yield per stalk. The trial was set up in the Experimental field of Tobacco Institute-Prilep in 2013 and 2014.

A very light gold leaf when curing, it makes an excellent smoking tobacco. It grows to a height of 6-7 feet tall. The light green leaves are from 14" to 18" wide and 24" to 30" long, and turn a light yellow when ripe.

The Samsoun Turkish tobaccos are among the best Oriental tobaccos out there. This variety of tobacco with - higher nicotine content now used to a greater shisha tobacco, and as an aromatic ingredient of cigarettes and pipe tobacco.

'Zimmer Spanish' is an old cigar binder-type variety dating back prior to 1880. It is said to be an improved "Havana-type" like 'Wilson's Hybrid'. The suckered plants reach about four feet in height producing fourteen to twenty quality leaves per plant.

This is a wonderful tobacco leaf for cigars, making a good filler and binder that imparts a deep, rich flavor to cigars. Leaves are darker, long and narrow, and offer a good high yield harvest.

Perique has leaves that are medium-sized, glossy in texture, gummy and tough but have fine fiber with small stems. It has been historically used as a smoking, chewing, cigar, and cigarette variety.

Extremely Potent half hardy annual that grows to about 3 ft. and is cultivated worldwide for smoking and nicotine production, but also works great for pesticides. This plant has many green to yellow flowers that remain open during the day.

One of the best Turkish tobacco seeds you can buy. These seeds are particularly apt at growing in dry conditions or just about anywhere. They are short in height and the leaves are smaller than usual. Their taste is mild, sweet and aromatic.

There are a number of common names in use for this species including: Wild Tobacco, Shamanic Tobacco, Erowid Tobacco or Aztec Tobacco. In South America it is traditionally called Mapacho. Midewiwan Sacred Tobacco is an annual.

A large plant producing a bountiful harvest of blemish free tobacco leaves. Air cured leaves produces an excellent smooth flavored cigar and makes excellent wrapper, filler and binder. It grows to about 6 feet in height.

Another great favourite and popular dark Burley tobacco. It is used for its hardiness and rich, stronger flavour. Good for cigarette making, pipes and cigars. This plant grows fast, with broader than usual leaves and is ideal for the beginner.

Nicotiana tabacum is a sticky, thick-leaved perennial that can reach up to six feet in height. Hardy to Zone 8, this is the preferred species of the tobacco industry. Its sweet-scented, highly ornamental flowers are white to pink and are pollinated.

Another very popular cigar variety. Will grow up to 6-7 ft. tall. It's leaves are longer, more slender and slightly darker than the Habano 2000. It's cured leaves have a silky texture making it a good covering for cigars.

'Connecticut Broadleaf' produces large, fine-grade leaves that are used for cigar wrappers. The lower grade leaves on the plants are used for cigar filler, blending and binder leaves. The leaves are broad, strong, thin, elastic, silky.

'Shirazi' is Turkish-type of tobacco originating from Iran. The leaves tend to be thick and heavy, high in nicotine, and are valued for their rich flavors and aroma. Historically sun-cured, it is used for cigarette and pipe blends.

Breeded in 1987 by the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences. This mid-season variety of tobacco has improved smoking properties, aroma of smoke and inflorescence, high quality raw materials.

This is a thermophilic culture. Grown as seedlings, and sowing in the ground. Plant height from 1 to 1.5 m. The leaves are wide, have a peculiar smell. Used for the production of tobacco products as well as to combat dangerous pests of agricultural crops.

A perspective variety of the Ukrainian selection of the Crimean Experimental Station of Tobacco-growing. Created by the method of species hybridization of the Peremozhek-83 varieties from the Nicotine Silvestris.

The high-yielding skinned variety, on productivity approaches the Moldavian variety. It has a high yield of higher commercial tobacco. Sowing: end of April - beginning of May. Seeding rate: 3.5-4.0 grams per hundred.

Maryland is a medium flavored Maryland type tobacco that grows to 6 feet in height and produces very large leaves to 36" long and 18" wide. It air cures to a light reddish brown color. Maryland tobacco is commonly used as a blender. Matures in 55-60 days.

Breeded in 1983 by the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences, the method of interspecific and intraspecific hybridization with the participation of varieties: American 572 + American 361.

Bred by the breeding laboratory of the Crimean Experimental Station of Tobacco-growing IVAV Magarach with the method of intraspecific hybridization from crossing Dübec 44 × Oktyabrsky 6 varieties, receiving the first generation in the greenhouse, in 1981.

This is an annual plant, about 120 centimeters high, with very smooth, pointed technical leaves in the amount of twenty-three to twenty-six pieces, about 60 centimeters long, after 68 days flowers appear: yellow-green and bright yellow.

Kentucky is a heavy producing white stemmed burley with yields as high as 6-8 ounces of dried leaf per plant. The light green leaves grow up to 36" in length and average 22"-24 inches wide.

This is a deep dark tobacco that gives good weight and supports itself very well. This is a tobacco prized by specialty growers because it provides a great wrapper tobacco or a premium snuff tobacco when ripe.

Cuban Criollo is one of the most valued strains for Cuban cigars. It originated from a crossing between the varieties 'Havana 92' and `Habana P.R'. Cultivated in the sun it produces from 14 to 16 useful leaves per plant and makes an excellent binder.

This tobacco, very similar to Basma, is a golden yellow / brown Oriental type tobacco leaf that is grown in Bulgaria, a country with a tradition in production of high quality tobacco. This is a quick growing, shorter and smaller leafed tobacco.

A variety of traditional tobacco from India. Plant height 0.8-1 m with light red flowers. The number of leaves - 18. Leaf narrow, dark green. The size of leaf - 32х18 cm. The term of aging is 60 days. Sensitive to cooling. It has a strong peculiar aroma.

Breeded by Ivan Michurin by crossing early Bulgarian tobacco and small-leaf Sumatra. The variety is very early ripening (can produce two harvests), hardy, fragrant. Plant height of only 0.6 m. Technical leaves 6-7.

Harmanli is a rare variety grown mainly in Bulgaria. This is a very large growing tobacco for an oriental type, reaching 8'-9' in height and producing up to 35 leaves per plant. The leaves average 14" to 16" wide and up to 24" in length.

Monte Calme Yellow grows to 5-6 feet in height with 12-14 leaves to the crowfoot. The leaves are a dark green with light colored stems, and grow up to 30 inches long and 20 inches wide. It produces some of the largest and heaviest leaf.

Burley 21 is heirloom Burley variety that is a long time favorite of growers. Its history dates back over 200 years. It grows to 6-7 feet and is a reliable producer of large heavy leaf. It does well in a wide range of climates, and matures in 65-70 days.

Another variety of Basma tobacco, Dubek comes from the Macedonian region of Greece. It has a light yellow leaf that is very aromatic and very sweet to smoke. Dubek tobacco is generally used to spice up pipe tobacco blends.

Silk Leaf is an old heirloom Virginian variety which has regained popularity among growers in recent years. It grows to 6 feet in height and is a good producer of leaves averaging 20" inches long by 12" wide. Matures in 65-70 days.

The shag has a golden color, a distinctive taste and smell of smoke. Vergun is produced only from raw materials of higher and middle grades.

The most respected varietal shag. Yelets shag enjoyed good demand. Midsummer, medium leaf. Yelets shag has a pleasant aromatic taste, medium strength.

Havana Z299 is a tall growing plant reaching over 7' in height and reaching maturity in only 55-60 days. It averages 22-24 harvestable leaves which average 14" by 20" with good uniformity and has little to no suckering before topping.