Pokeweed <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca_americana" title="Phytolacca americana">Phytolacca americana</a></i> fruit, Carrboro, North Carolina. This is the species native to the eastern USA, generally highly toxic, though there are historic medicinal uses, and the young leaves are occasionally eaten as greens after repeated blanchings in multiple changes of water.
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