Jean Nicot
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Jean Nicot de Villemain was a French diplomat and scholar. He is famous for being the first to bring tobacco to France, including snuff tobacco. Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tab
19th-century engraving of Jean Nicot (1530-1600)
Nicotiana
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Nicotiana is a genus of herbaceous plants and shrubs in the family Solanaceae that is indigenous to the Americas, Australia, Southwestern Africa and the South Pacific. Various Nicotiana species, commo
Cross section of Nicotiana tabacum corolla, showing pistil and stamens
Illustration with photographs of tobacco leaves infested by tobacco beetles (Lasioderma serricorne) from Runner, G. A., The tobacco beetle (1919), Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Nicotiana sylvestris