- Yellow Orinoco has a mild flavor, comes from an early variety that was one of the first brought to the United States, and is historically used as a pipe and cigarette tobacco.
Tobacco seeds are VERY tiny. Package contains 100 seeds. Yellow Orinoco comes from a strain of tobacco called Orinoco.
Orinoco is said (not sure I believe this to be totally accurate)to have been the very first tobacco brought to the United States around 1745.
