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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 ...
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]
Immediately rinse skin with rubbing alcohol, poison plant wash, or degreasing soap (such as dishwashing soap) or detergent, and lots of water. Rinse frequently so that wash solutions do not dry on ...
Phytolacca icosandra, sometimes known as button pokeweed [1] or tropical pokeweed, [2] is a species of flowering plant found in the neotropics and introduced into the warmer areas of the western USA. It reaches up to 3 m in height, with leaves of 10–20 cm by 9–14 cm.
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.