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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 ...
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]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
This may seem a little drastic but goats are actually a highly effective and safe way to get rid of poison oak. They are enthusiastic eaters and love the taste of this troublesome plant.