It’s pokeweed (Phytolacca americana). You should consider all parts toxic.
Enge712
Poke weed is toxic. I will say it used to be eaten as a good source int the south and cooking the greens makes them less toxic. Reportedly a treatment for roundworms in that you get the squirts bad enough to reduce your parasite load.
This is all just educational and in no means an endorsement of eating a toxic plant. Also the berries are wicked staining if you huck them at people.
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It’s pokeweed (Phytolacca americana). You should consider all parts toxic.
Poke weed is toxic. I will say it used to be eaten as a good source int the south and cooking the greens makes them less toxic. Reportedly a treatment for roundworms in that you get the squirts bad enough to reduce your parasite load.
This is all just educational and in no means an endorsement of eating a toxic plant. Also the berries are wicked staining if you huck them at people.