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Old 06-14-2006, 11:23 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Re: Grow your own cigars

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Originally Posted by Ceedee
Cool picture! In actuality though this is not a tobacco plant. The "Cigar Plant" is named for the flowers that resemble the shape and size of Cigars. A good friend of mine used to have some just to attract hummingbirds. They were a little hard to keep up I believe...

Some Tobacco plants do produce nice looking flowers (for the more ornamental species) and can look pretty cool.

Black Tobacco cultivated for cigars may look like this:

http://www.cubancrafters.com/picking_tobacco.php

Just my .
I was aware that it was not a tobacco plant... It was a joke. RJT
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