BISHOP, Calif. — Raymond Andrews picks through the foliage of wild tobacco plants on an arid, wind-swept Sierra Nevada plateau. The 55-year-old Paiute Indian, with waist-length gray hair and a ...

A camping site at El Capitan State Beach with the beach below. “Indian tobacco” plants intertwine with the potent datura foliage along the bike path at Refugio State Beach. Nicotiana ...

Photo by Jennifer Poore Indian tobacco has white flowers and sessile leaves that are alternate up the stem. An exciting population of native tobacco plant has emerged from its seed bank in Redding.

A new technique for analyzing ancient plant residue has yielded evidence that Native Americans living in what is now Washington State smoked smooth sumac and wild tobacco some 1,400 years ago ...

MEDICINE Indian Tobacco v. Tobacco A Spanish physician whom American Indians taught to smoke tobacco introduced that indigenous American plant to Europe in 1558. Sir Walter Raleigh, whom Sir ...

Before contact, Western tribes ranging from Alaska to California used wild strains of tobacco instead, such as N. quadrivalvis (Indian tobacco) and N. attenuata (coyote tobacco).

The indigenous, wild tobacco species that grow in the western U.S. are related to but do not resemble the farmed tobacco that you might picture drying in a Kentucky barn today.

Plant Self-Defense. Clip: Season 31 Episode 9 | 1m 8s. To protect against herbivores, wild tobacco plants deposit sweet but deadly secretions. 04/03/2013 | Rating NR ...

Transgenic Wild Tobacco Studies Reveal New And Unexpected Insights Into Plant-Herbivore Interactions. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2004 / 07 ...

Using a molecular clock, they discovered the plant variety was 750,000 years old. Maybe we can transfer this knowledge to use it in other crop species like soy beans and potatoes.