What Bush Is This?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 5:43 pm
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What Bush Is This?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:41 pm
we call it poke weed. I would ripe it out. Hopefully others will help more. The only use that I know of is as a dye plant.
What Bush Is This?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:45 pm
Agree with Wendy, Pokeweed. Here is a description, it's poisonous..........
POKEWEED berries - poisonous
A.k.a. Ink berries, poke, poke berry and pokebush; birds can digest pokeweed but the berries are poisonous to humans; berries are dark purple, while the flowers of are greenish-white; grow up to five feet tall and has thick green-purple stems similar to rhubarb; grow in clusters, like grapes, and ripen from white to green to rose and finally purple; Ripe berries stain the hands purple when crushed; eating over 10 berries may cause headache, abdominal pain, and severe diarrhea
POKEWEED berries - poisonous
A.k.a. Ink berries, poke, poke berry and pokebush; birds can digest pokeweed but the berries are poisonous to humans; berries are dark purple, while the flowers of are greenish-white; grow up to five feet tall and has thick green-purple stems similar to rhubarb; grow in clusters, like grapes, and ripen from white to green to rose and finally purple; Ripe berries stain the hands purple when crushed; eating over 10 berries may cause headache, abdominal pain, and severe diarrhea
What Bush Is This?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:46 pm
Yup, just googled. You're right!!
Phytolacca americana. Highly toxic to humans and some animals. My cardinals and blue Jays love it and a few wood peckers I have seen nibbling. I'll leave it for them seeing as I don't have any small children at risk.
Phytolacca americana. Highly toxic to humans and some animals. My cardinals and blue Jays love it and a few wood peckers I have seen nibbling. I'll leave it for them seeing as I don't have any small children at risk.
What Bush Is This?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:48 pm
Thank you!
What Bush Is This?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 9:19 pm
Your 
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