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<big>''[[Phytolacca americana]]'' L.</big>
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:Family: Phytolaccaceae
== Synonyms ==
''Phytolacca decandra'' L.
== Vernacular names ==
*Pokeweed (En). Raisin d'Amérique, morelle à grappe (Fr)
*Laos: kub nyuj (Hmong)
*Vietnam: thương lục.
== Distribution ==
Originating from North America, now cultivated worldwide and sometimes naturalized. In South-East Asia particularly in Indo-China.
== Uses ==
Young shoots, when cooked, are used as a vegetable. The red fruits have been used to colour wine, but are slightly toxic. All parts, especially the roots, are used medicinally as narcotic, emetic and purgative. The plant is a common ornamental in temperate climates.
== Observations ==
Perennial herb, up to 4 m tall, with branched stems and tuberous roots. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 10-40 cm × 4-12 cm. Fruit a berry, subglobose, 1.2 cm in diameter, 10-lobed, dark red, in racemose infructescences. The plant is often distributed by birds which eat the fruits.
== Selected sources ==
33, 47, 57, 70.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Phytolacca americana'' (PROSEA)}}
<big>''[[Phytolacca americana]]'' L.</big>
__NOTOC__
:Family: Phytolaccaceae
== Synonyms ==
''Phytolacca decandra'' L.
== Vernacular names ==
*Pokeweed (En). Raisin d'Amérique, morelle à grappe (Fr)
*Laos: kub nyuj (Hmong)
*Vietnam: thương lục.
== Distribution ==
Originating from North America, now cultivated worldwide and sometimes naturalized. In South-East Asia particularly in Indo-China.
== Uses ==
Young shoots, when cooked, are used as a vegetable. The red fruits have been used to colour wine, but are slightly toxic. All parts, especially the roots, are used medicinally as narcotic, emetic and purgative. The plant is a common ornamental in temperate climates.
== Observations ==
Perennial herb, up to 4 m tall, with branched stems and tuberous roots. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 10-40 cm × 4-12 cm. Fruit a berry, subglobose, 1.2 cm in diameter, 10-lobed, dark red, in racemose infructescences. The plant is often distributed by birds which eat the fruits.
== Selected sources ==
33, 47, 57, 70.
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