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  2. Phytolacca americana - Wikipedia

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    The toxic extract of ripe pokeweed berries can be processed to yield a pink dye. [45] [46] [47] Early European settlers to North America would procure a fine red dye from the plant's roots. [48] During the middle of the 19th century wine often was coloured with juice from pokeberries. [49]

  3. Phytolacca - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. It’s not just poison hemlock. Here are 10 more toxic plants ...

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    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 ...

  5. Phytolacca sandwicensis - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Edible or not? Alicia Silverstone's misstep shows how toxic ...

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    Pokeweed and Virginia creeper fruits also resemble blueberries, and both can be fatal if ingested. Lilies, which are toxic, have an uncanny resemblance to edible onion and garlic grasses ...

  7. A guide to some of NC’s most dangerous plants, from poison ...

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    What does poison ivy look like? Poison ivy can grow as a vine or a small shrub, trailing along the ground or even climbing low plants, trees and poles.Look for three glossy leaflets. The common ...

  8. Talk:Phytolacca americana - Wikipedia

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    Berries: eaten without biting into the toxic seeds for arthritis. One is taken the first day, two the second, up to 7 and back down to one. [4] The berries can also be soaked in water and the water drunk for rheumatism and arthritis. Juice has been topically applied for cancer, hemorrhoids and tremors. [1] Leaves: Cathartic and purgative.

  9. Rivina humilis - Wikipedia

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    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.