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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]
Phytolacca sandwicensis, also known as Hawai'i pokeweed, is a member of the Phytolaccaceae family and is a flowering and fruit bearing species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, where it is found on Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Maui, and Hawaiʻi. [2] Locally it is referred to as pōpolo kū mai and/or pōpolo. [2]
One issue with pokeweed, to the genteel gardener, is that it doesn’t age well. Once the birds have stripped its fruit, the giant plants quickly lose rigidity and collapse. The resultant tangle ...
Phytolacca acinosa, the Indian pokeweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Phytolaccaceae. [2] It is native to temperate eastern Asia; the Himalayas, most of China, Vietnam to Japan, and has been widely introduced to Europe. [1] The species was originally described by William Roxburgh in 1814. [3] [2]
Phytolaccaceae is a family of flowering plants.Though almost universally recognized by taxonomists, its circumscription has varied.It is also known as the Pokeweed family. ...
Pokeweed may refer to several species of genus Phytolacca: Phytolacca americana, or American pokeweed; Phytolacca acinosa, or Indian pokeweed;
Phytolacca rivinoides, also known by its common name Venezuelan pokeweed, is a species of shrub [1] in the genus Phytolacca. [2] [3] [4] References