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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 ...
Poke salad ('poke salat') is considered part of traditional southern U.S. cuisine, where it is cooked three times in three changes of boiling water to remove some of the harmful components. [13] Toxic constituents which have been identified include the alkaloids phytolaccine and phytolaccotoxin, as well as a glycoprotein. [14]
The pokeweed has been used by the natives there for thousands of years. They would gather the berries of the plant and crush them to make a dark purplish dye for tattooing. The berries themselves are not consumable by humans or mammals, but birds have been able to adapt to combat the toxins which are emitted and do eat the fruits which aids in ...
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.
Colorful, conspicuous berries often evolve to attract highly mobile dispersal agents, and birds excel at distributing a plant’s spawn. One issue with pokeweed, to the genteel gardener, is that ...
If you think you’ve swallowed a toxic plant by mistake, contact a poison control center at www.poison.org or 1-800-222-1222. Jessica Damiano writes weekly gardening columns for the AP and ...
Berries, edible raw and used in jams [28] Elder: Sambucus nigra: Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and Anatolia: Flowers (June to July), edible raw, as a salad green, or pickled, or to make tea, or alcoholic beverages . Berries (August to October), edible when ripe (turning upside down) and cooked; raw berries are mildly poisonous [29 ...
All parts of the plant are poisonous. However, accidental poisoning is not likely since the berries are extremely bitter. The berries are the most toxic part of the plant. A healthy adult will experience poisoning from as few as six berries. Ingestion of the berries causes nausea, dizziness, increased pulse and severe gastrointestinal discomfort.