Nicotiana 'Hot Chocolate'

Also Known As

Nicotiana x 'Hot Chocolate'
Hot Chocolate Flowering Tobacco

Plant type

perennial

size

H: 3'-4'
W: 1'-2'

planting zones

9a-11

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Nicotiana 'Hot Chocolate' plant details

Nicotiana 'Hot Chocolate' is a broadleaf semi-evergreen perennial with green foliage. In fall and summer chocolate, purple and red flowers emerge. Grows well with mostly sun - mostly shade and regular water. Does well in rich and well-drained soil. A good option if you're seeking something humidity tolerant.

CHARACTERISTICS OF Nicotiana 'Hot Chocolate'

Plant type: perennial
Plant family: solanaceae
Foliage: semi-evergreen green
Mature size: 1 FT - 2 FT - wide, 3 FT - 4 FT - tall
Flowers: chocolate, purple and red blooms in fall and summer
Uses: cottage garden, easy-to-grow, fragrant, long-blooming, self-sowing

GROWING CONDITIONS for Nicotiana 'Hot Chocolate'

USDA Zones: 9a - 11
Sun exposure: mostly sun - mostly shade
Watering frequency: regular
Resistant to: deer and snail / slug, humidity
Soil needs: rich and well-drained

Nursery contributed plant descriptions

Lightly scented trumpets of mauve to deep chocolate brown adorn this beauty. Long tubular flowers end in a shower of smokey red and maroon stars, the flowers blooming in abundant clusters all summer to frost. A lovely companion to 'Lime Green' tobacco and 'Redhead' coleus. Self sows.

By: Select Seeds

A pretty and floriferous tobacco relative, this is tender but reseeds. Plants are upright with large leaves at the base with branching stems 3-4’ tall bearing lots of ruby red chocolate flowers...they remind me of red velvet cake! Morning sun is best, enjoys rich well drained soil but takes less. Deer resistant, bug resistant and snail/slug resistant. Easy and perfectly at home in the cottage garden! Annual all zones.

By: Secret Garden Growers

A garden hybrid of N. langsdorfii and N. alata, with flowers colored anywhere between lime green to chocolate purple shades. An old fashioned looking cottage garden plant.

By: Avant Gardens

New and exciting for 2005! This charming new strain of Nicotiana originated from Blue Meadow Farm Nursery of Massachusetts. Clearly showing a lot of Nicotiana langsdorfii, it bears an abundance of pendulous green tubes opening out to starry petals of ruby red to chocolate. 3’-4’ tall, multibranching, fast and easy to grow like all Nicotianas, give it rich soil and some shade. The colors are richest when grown in bright shade with no more than morning sun. Perennial USDA Zones 10-11, annual elsewhere, but colder climate folks need not dismay as it readily self sows! Snail resistant! Deer resistant!