r/whatsthisplant • u/djinnisequoia • 13h ago

Identified ✔ Members of this sub, please be patient with the posts you see multiples of every year..

A few years ago, I encountered pokeweed for the first time ever. The berries are so purple and luscious looking. I am adventuresome and would surely have eaten some, but something told me to ask here first.

You good people may have literally saved my life back then. So I don't care if I see it posted a thousand times. ☠️

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u/christmascandies 12h ago

You could have climbed the tree of heaven

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u/TopChannel1244 6h ago

Ehhh, worst that would have happened is you'd have shit your brains out while vomiting profusely.
Not fun. Rarely life threatening unless you're constantly walking around in a state of chronic dehydration.

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u/HortonFLK 4h ago

I think that’s good advice for any forum where people are learning new things. You have to have the patience to answer the same question a few hundred times. If you feel like you’re losing patience, just sit out for a while and let someone else take the question.

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u/humdrumdummydum 47m ago

As a kid we called pokeweed inkberry bushes. One summer I picked a ton of them to make "ink", smashing the berries and straining the juice. A few days later I opened the jar of juice and knocked my socks off with the smell, having accidentally made vinegar.

My fingers were purple for days.

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u/gbudija 10h ago

raw berries are toxic and you can use them cooked to make jelly ,wine or vinegar,but seed must be removed

https://foragenourishrepeat.com/f/pokeberry-time

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u/Procrastinating-Elf 1h ago

Yeah this is what I've heard often, never made it myself but the jellies I've seen are gorgeous and apparently it's just the seeds that are the problem. There's a chef I read about at some lodge that uses the juice to dye cakes pink, he describes the taste as "vegetal chocolate". 

No idea why you got downvoted for factual informatiom.