What are you looking at? Those are tobacco fruits. Yes, tobacco make fruits. (You just learned something, didn't you?) That one in the middle is a bit of a mutant, a double fruit from one flower which itself was a kind of mutant. The usual fruits are somewhat almond shaped.
Here's some more knowledge: Tobacco plants are in the nightshade family, which makes them both poisonous and related to chile, potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, and petunias. The more you handle the plants, the more nicotine they produce, so when we're working with them in the greenhouse we wear gloves. (I wasn't wearing gloves in this picture because I didn't want my phone to get covered with the sticky stuff the plants secrete and which was all over my gloves.)
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Tobacco or tomacco?
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