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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 ...
A Phytolacca-like fossil has been described from the Upper Cretaceous (late Campanian) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico, it is a permineralized multiple infructescence composed of berries with six locules, each containing a single seed with a curved embryo developed in a curved ovule with pendulous placentation, a berry anatomy that ...
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 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, alas, has the temerity to pop up in unwanted places in our yards. The wayward adventurers are undoubtedly broadcast by birds, of which many species relish the fruit.
Similar to the effect on animals, European mistletoe appears to be more toxic than American mistletoe so the reaction may depend on the type eaten and the part of the plant (the berries are less ...
The juice made from the berries was used as a dye and ink at one time. The berries contain a pigment known as rivianin or rivinianin , [ 4 ] which has the IUPAC name 5-O-β- D -Glucopyranoside, 3-sulfate, CAS number 58115-21-2, and molecular formula C 24 H 26 N 2 O 16 S. [ 11 ] It is very similar to betanin , the pigment found in beets . [ 4 ]
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