4. Nicotiana rustica L. (S-Am.) – Formerly much cultivated for the tobacco trade or as an ornamental. A rather rare and much decreasing, always ephemeral alien. First recorded in a potato field (probably as a relic of cultivation) in St.-Gillis (Brussel) in 1868. Subsequently observed in several, widely scattered locations, the last time in 1992 on a dump in Turnhout. Most records are obviously associated with garden waste or former cultivation but Nicotiana rustica was formerly also recorded as an exceptional wool alien in the Vesdre valley. At present Nicotiana rustica is only very rarely cultivated in Belgium and probably no longer occurs as an alien.
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