Pics of some interesting tobacco flowers

[Jitterbugdude]

And your photo of the Red flowered tobacco (TI 722R) shows up as a white flowered tobacco on GRIN

 

[JessicaNicot]

And your photo of the Red flowered tobacco (TI 722R) shows up as a white flowered tobacco on GRIN

there is another line, TI 722W, which has white flowers. the original seed lot was segregating.

 

[skychaser]

Jessica, Do you happen to know anything about Red Russian - TC 588 There is next to nothing for info on it in the grin data base and I've never found much on it either.

 

[Chicken]

cotton also throws off some nice flower's...

 

[skychaser]

Sylvestris is a pretty cool one too.

 

[deluxestogie]

My Machu Picchu (Pi 116159, Ti 719) is specifically listed in the original accession document (http://sun.ars-grin.gov:8080/npgs_public/prodweb.pdf0?in_vol=127&in_suffix=&in_page=060) as "white flower", while another collected at Machu Picchu (Pi 116160) at the same time (in 1936) is listed as "red flower." Although mine shows only a pink flower, the original was collected at 2100 meters (well over 6000 ft.) elevation, and the Observation data records it as pink. I suspect that the elevation, and perhaps the unique growing conditions at Machu Picchu (which might actually have been Huayna Picchu, the next ridge to the south), may account for the color difference.

Bob