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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]
While herbaceous, pokeweed resembles a loosely branched shrub and in prime condition, a plant is ornamental in appearance. Especially when festooned with racemes of dangling purplish-black berries.
Ligusticum scothicum, 'Scots lovage,' young leaves and stems are edible. Nyphaea odorata, 'water-lily,' young stems and leaves, otherwise too fibrous. Palmaria palmata, 'red dulce,' edible type of red algae. Phytolacca americana, 'pokeweed' or 'skokeweed,' very poisonous. Only very young leaves are edible after boiling and extensive changes of ...
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]
Rivina humilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Petiveriaceae.It was formerly placed in the pokeweed family, Phytolaccaceae. [2] It can be found in the southern United States, the Caribbean, Central America, and tropical South America.
Nature: Pokeweed berries provide food for many birds. Even without human interference, these insects need all the help that they can get. Eastern populations, such as in Ohio, engage in incredible ...
Inkberry is a common name for several unrelated plants: . Any plant in the genus Phytolacca (pokeweeds) . Especially Phytolacca americana (American pokeweed); Dianella nigra (turutu in Māori, New Zealand blueberry)