Thread: Can you help me identify this plant?
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Old 11-07-2007, 03:37 PM posted to sci.bio.botany
Stewart Robert Hinsley Stewart Robert Hinsley is offline
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Default Can you help me identify this plant?
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Your plant is Phytolacca americana, or Pokeweed. I have one growing in my
yard and they are very interesting plants!

Ack...lol. I tasted about 3 or 4 berries on this plant almost a year
ago, thinking that they were edible wild cranberries...they didn't
taste half bad...they had a sweet taste, and then went very sour at
the end...didn't get sick though.

If you google you'll find a lot of pages telling you that Phytolacca is
poisonous.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley
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