Week in Words

"When Apricot Met Plum...," Personal Journal, Sept. 7

The funniest plant hybrid has to be "tomacco," a blend of tomato and tobacco plants, inspired by an episode of "The Simpsons." Tomacco has been created at least twice in real life; once by Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Ore., back in 2003, who based his work on a 1959 experiment by researchers at Western Washington University.

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