In 2003, Rob Baur of
Lake Oswego, Oregon made a real-life
hybrid of a
tomato and a
tobacco plant that grew fruit and looked just like tomato plant.
Wired News covered this story further. Baur
grafted the tomato plant onto the roots of a tobacco plant, after failing to do it the other way around previously. The hybrid was possible because both plants are part of the
Solanaceae family.
Baur had some leaves of the tomacco plant tested by the
Intermountain Foresic Laboratory, but not any fruit. Baur said the fruit looked just like a normal tomato, but he suspected it contained a lethal amount of
nicotine, too much to be
edible.
The Wired News
article:
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,61091,00.html