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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]
All parts of pokeweed are toxic including the raw aboveground leaves sprouting in the early spring. [1] The poisonous principles are found in highest concentrations in the rootstock, less in the mature leaves and stems, and least in the ripe fruit (green fruit are slightly more toxic).
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Roselle leaves are edible and have a pleasant taste. This plant has good medicinal value. In some areas, it is used as a substitute for Jute. Hirschfeldia incana: Shortpod mustard [116] Honckenya peploides: Sea sandwort: Traditionally used as food by the inhabitants of coastal Subarctic areas [117] Houttuynia cordata: Fishwort
Contrary to a popular myth, [112] poinsettias are only very mildly toxic, if at all, and in most contexts are considered non-toxic both to humans and domestic pets; a review of more than 22,000 reported cases of poinsettia exposure, the majority of which occurred in children, found that 92% of those exposed did not develop any symptoms at all ...
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Pokeweed mosaic virus is a species of virus in the genus Potyvirus. [1] It is known to infect American pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ), in which it causes mosaic symptoms . References