Broad Leaf Orinoco (aka Broadleaf Orinoco) Tobacco

‘Broad Leaf Orinoco’, also known as ‘Broadleaf Orinoco’, has plants grow five to six feet tall if left to flower, or about four feet tall when topped. Its leaves reach twelve inches wide by twenty-four inches long. It is a very old, flue cured-type tobacco variety historically used for pipe and cigar blending. When grown under certain conditions, it was sometimes used as cigar wrappers. An 1876 publication described as follows:

By the end of the 19th century, it was described as being one of the favorite varieties of “yellow-tobacco” grown by the majority of planters in the South.^[2] Our seed originated from USDA accession number PI 552302 and was sent to us by David Pendergrass from Tennessee.