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Phytolacca americana, also known as American pokeweed, pokeweed, poke sallet, pokeberry, dragonberries, pigeonberry weed, and inkberry, is a poisonous, herbaceous perennial plant in the pokeweed family Phytolaccaceae. This pokeweed grows 1 to 3 metres (4 to 10 ft). [4] It has simple leaves on green to red or purplish stems and a large white ...
Phytolacca americana (American pokeweed, pokeweed, poke) is used as a folk medicine and as food, although all parts of it must be considered toxic unless, as folk recipes claim, it is "properly prepared." [citation needed] The root is never eaten and cannot be made edible. [12]
Pokeweed This fast-growing plant, with large green leaves and dark berries in the fall , is poisonous and has been known to kill livestock that eat pokeweed growing in pastures. How to avoid toxic ...
The leaves and acorns of oak species are poisonous in large amounts to humans and livestock, including cattle, horses, sheep and goats, but not pigs. Poisoning is caused by the toxin tannic acid , which causes gastroenteritis , heart trouble, contact dermatitis and kidney damage.
In many cases, entire genera are poisonous to equines and include many species spread over several continents. Plants can cause reactions ranging from laminitis (found in horses bedded on shavings from black walnut trees), anemia , kidney disease and kidney failure (from eating the wilted leaves of red maples ), to cyanide poisoning (from the ...
A goat could be the answer to your poison oak problems. ©Sherry Sinclair/Shutterstock.com This may seem a little drastic but goats are actually a highly effective and safe way to get rid of ...
Biologists deduced that the greatest limiting factor for Bighorn sheep populations is the deadly disease caused by contact with domestic sheep and goats. [11] Domestic sheep are seemingly unaffected by M. ovipneumoniae and to compound the problems in bighorn sheep, lamb survival can remain dangerously low for decades after an outbreak. Adult ...
The first description of the disease was published in 1942 and relates to an outbreak in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, in goats and sheep in 1940. [ 18 ] [ 11 ] It spread to East Africa and Arabia at the beginning of the 1980s and to Pakistan and India in the early 1990s (Calcutta goat markets) finally reaching Tibet in 2007. [ 11 ]