Mountain Tobacco

A non-native plant to Egypt, but grown in many of the gardens and wadis in St. Katherine's Protectorate. The Bedouin, many of whom smoke, grow the plant for their individual consumption and smoke it green rather than dried which increases the nicotine strength. The plant is called "khudri" or "shami" by the Bedouin. Because of an unusually wet winter, this and other crops are thriving this spring!