Horticulturalists have spent years carrying out grafting trials to produce the dual-cropping plant named “Egg and Chips” which grows aubergines from its stem and potatoes from its roots.
Experts experimented with more than 20 varieties of aubergine, commonly known as egg plants, before selecting one that was deemed best for size and performance.
They then carefully cut the delicate five cm stems of the aubergine and potato plants in half at an identical angle before grafting them together.
The lower end of the potato plant and the top part of the aubergine then naturally fused together and grew on.
The end result is a batch of about four big purple coloured vegetables and two kilogrammes of potatoes under the soil.
The ‘Egg and Chips’ plants are now being sold by British seed company Thompson & Morgan for the first time.