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Pokeweed Pokeberry
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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POKEWEED POKEBERRY (from the American-Indian pocan, applied to any plant yielding a red or yellow dye), in botany, the popular name of Phytolacca decandra, a strongsmelling perennial herb, a native of North America, with ovatelanceolate sharp-pointed leaves, racemes of small greenish-white flowers and flattish berries nearly 2 in. in diameter, which contain a crimson juice. The young asparagus-like shoots are sometimes used as a pot-herb, but the roots are poisonous. The plant is often cultivated in Europe, and has become naturalized in the Mediterranean region.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pokeweed Pokeberry'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/pokeweed-pokeberry.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pokeweed Pokeberry'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/pokeweed-pokeberry.html. 1910.