Plant in the yard sprung up seemingly overnight.
Posted Aug 29, 2021, 11:18 PM UTC
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I figured the fruits would give it away. There are a bunch that turned black. It really did pop up pretty quickly, especially considering it’s almost waist high. It’s in my lawn where I mow and granted I’ve been a bit lax on mowing the last week but still…
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We used to call them choke-a-cherries and we used them to dye sand from the sandbox pink/purple!
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Polk salad, Annie. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WrT-TQTLoiw
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Yeah where's that bot when you need it? (The one in r/whatsthisplant) This plant, pokeweed, is poison! (Unless the leaves picked when very young and cooked correctly) The only reason this plant has a reputation for being edible is that some poor people had nothing else to eat and foraged for it...but they had to boil the leaves like three times or something!
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Thank you for your comment. I do pay attention. We do have a don't eat bot but it had to be summoned by a moderator (not my idea) so if I didn't catch it while checking ID's it would go unnoticed. As of today we do now have an automatic don't eat bot thanks to some kind people over at r/RequestABOT who wrote the code for us. :)
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American pokeweed
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Good for birds. Not good for you of dogs and will spread.
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The berries make a nice dye. Or a big mess.
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They look like octopus tentacles!!
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Phytolacca Americana, or Common Pokeweed
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Pokeweed. Just had one pop up in my yard. Thanks to the awesome people here I was immediately able to identify this. Thanks all
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It's really pretty though, invasive or not.
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Oh so this is pokeweed?
I thought it was American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)
I’ve got tons of Beautyberry coming up in my flowerbed, just going to leaving it as the birds love it too.
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Can be crushed and used to make ink or paint. Google “poke berry ink” to find instructions. Once they get ripe they stain though so be careful when you pick them. And, again, they are poisonous so keep them away from anything you use to eat.
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The berries can make an ink that changes colors when added to acid (an acid/base indicator). The purple changes to yellow week acid.
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To me that looks exactly like the passionflowers that grow wild here in the sandhills of central Georgia.
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Pokeweed
Oh really! I’ve heard it’s a rather useful plant. Thanks a lot.
Here it's an invasive weed, really thick taproot and the bigger it grows the harder it is to get rid of it.
It's a native plant where I am, here in the US. It's loved by wildlife so I leave it be on my property (as long as it's not in the way). I think it's kinda pretty.
Same. I leave it because it's a food source for wildlife. I constantly see my wild bird flock picking berries off of it and flying to it for visibility in the yard. It does came back in the same spot each year if you leave it.
Also in the US, live on farm land. Very invasive when you're trying to grow other things. It's also destroyed part of a shed from growing up underneath it.
Oh, that’s good to know. I was contemplating trying to propagate it on the edges of my property! That could have ended up being a mess.
Don't listen to him, pokeweed is a native wildflower and is an imortant food source for birds and nectar for bees and butterflies. do your ecosystem a favor and propagate it! it is only invasive if you live in europe.
Trust me, it is indeed a mess. I've been fighting it this year. Some of it has to be close to 10ft tall and the stalks are so thick I have to cut them down with a saw.
If it’s native in your area, it’s fine. I’ve had a patch for 15 years and somehow we’ve survived living with it. The cedar waxwings love it. I made ink with the berries one year for funsies.
Good god don’t do that unless you can contain it. It’s very poisonous to humans and dogs if ingested.
I have also read that it can give a rash like poison ivy once the stems start turning purple.
FYI - I had a horrible rash for a week from pulling/cutting Pokeweed this summer.
It is poisonous to humans, more so in the adult form of the plant. I had numerous welts and a painful/itchy rash of which topical creams helped minimally - it just had to run its course.
So… be careful if pulling.
i also agree that plants go before putas >:( interesante nickname, estimado