Velvet Tobacco (Nicotiana velutina) flowering near Lyndhurst in spring.

Velvet Tobacco (Nicotiana velutina) flowering near Lyndhurst in spring.

Wild Tobacco flowering on the banks of Copley Retention Dam, May.


Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater feeding on the nectar of Wild Tobacco on the banks of the Copley Retention Dam.
Velvet Tobacco, Nicotiana velutina, is a relative of Pituri flowering during mid winter at Stubbs Waterhole, Arkaroola.

Introduced “Native Tobacco” colonising the waterways of the Flinders Ranges, seen here on the banks of the Copley Retention Dam.
