In my Nature Notebook...

8/23/2011

Poke-berry. Beautiful but poisonous to humans. Being researched as a possible medicine for R.A. and Aids. The greens are known in some parts of the South as an early spring dish after being boiled, twice. Dyes and ink were also made of the berry. (soldiers sometimes wrote home during the Civil War with poke berry ink) The plant I saw was taller than me with a sturdy cane like stalk like bamboo. The guide told me they are very invasive.

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