The Nicotiana Project
Trials of Tobacco Types and Varieties
Mission:
The organic culture of tabacum and rustica
germplasm.
The grow-out and preservation of retired commercial tabacum cultivars.
Trialing retired cultivars against current commercial cultivars.
Selection and breeding of lines for Pennsylvania (USA) culture.
Email info@nicotianaproject.net
Pennsylvania & Tobacco Booklet
Pictorial review of select varieties within various tobacco Types . . .
Type: A division of a class of tobacco having certain common characteristics and closely related grades. Tobacco which has the same characteristics and corresponding qualities, colors, and lengths is classified as one type, regardless of any factors of historical or geographical nature which cannot be determined by an examination of the tobacco.
Tobacco is not a homogeneous product. The flavor, mildness, texture, tar, nicotine, and sugar content vary considerably across varieties or types of tobacco. Defining characteristics of different tobacco types include the curing process (flue-, air-, sun-cured) and leaf color (light or dark), size, and thickness. A given type of tobacco has a different quality depending on where it is grown, its position on the stalk (leaves near the bottom of the stalk are lower in quality), and weather conditions during growing and curing.
