Nicotiana tabacum (N. rustica) Delgold Tobacco Tobacco seeds are VERY tiny. Package contains 100 seeds. Bred in Canada around 1980 by crossing wild tobacco with two popular American tobacco varieties, Hicks Broadleaf tobacco and Virginia 115 tobacco. This cross produced a plant that was a high-yielding, high-nicotine cultivar that was widely adopted by growers. Delgold tobacco is still considered one of the better yielding flue-cured varieties available on the market today.