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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 ...
American Pokeweed: Poisonous until properly prepared. [251] [252] Phytolacca dioica: Bella Sombra [253] Phytolacca rivinoides: Deer calalu [254] [255] [256] Pilea melastomoides : Pohpohan: Eaten raw in Lalab dish [257] Pimpinella anisum: Aniseed [258] [259] Pimpinella saxifraga: Burnet Saxifrage [260] Pinus densiflora: Japanese Red Pine [261 ...
Try starting a poison-ivy fan club. You’ll likely be the only member. ... Another native I might include in the unloved category is pokeweed (Phytolacca americana), which few nurseries peddle ...
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 ...
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.
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