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Further note: due to the close relation of the genera Solanum and Nicotiana, viable crossbreeding is hypothetically possible.Note: while Jimsonweed can turn you into a living zombie and nightshade can make you actually dead, none of the plants listed can turn you into an undead creature. Better keep half an eye on those potatoes, though. You never can trust the damn things.Solanum, the virus responsible for creating zombies in author Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide and its accompanying novel World War Z, shares its name with a large and diverse genus of flowering plants including, among others, potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, and bittersweet.
The family of plants that includes Solanum is that of the Solanaceae, which encompasses many genera, including those of chili and bell peppers, Jimsonweed, mandrake root, deadly nightshade, petunias, tobacco, gooseberries, and tomatillos.
And if you cross potatoes and tobacco, you might end up with this guy.