Pokeweed-DO NOT EAT

there are some edible parts but i suggest not eating at all. there is just to much risk!

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• pokeweed
• poiseness
• camping
• hiking
• woods
• outdoors
• wild
• edibles

[ApostleRon]

I take the stalks and peel them and batter them like okra then deep fry them. Great taste. When you teach this please speak slow and precise. I didnt understand alot of what you said.

[HMharrisonmurray]

thanks for the tip

[susiebeemee]

I live in a part of the country where poke is plentiful and FREQUENTLY eaten. It is harvested when plants are young & tender and left alone if it has gotten tough or created berries (which ARE poisonous). The tender leaves are boiled and the water changed several times to get rid of bitterness, also changing the water lessens any chance of stomach discomfort. It would be a shame if people read these posts and didn't even try eating poke. It is especially nice with butter and vinegar. ;-)

[newtechnology2]

You are wrong about that plant I know as poke salid. The whole plant you can eat. The berries you say will kill you my dad used to make wine from. However, you can do as you please and not eat this plant. More for me thank you !!!

[dvorakfan1]

poke is a powerful medicinal herb, great for the lymph. I used to stay away from it, but now I understand it, I use it. Just look it up on a search engine, it is great.

[PerceptionModified]

My mother cooked pokeweeds when I was a child. She would boil them, strain and change the water three times. They tasted a great deal like turnip or mustard greens.

[mrfabulocity]

Pokeweed is rampant in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the state in which both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written... in POKEWEED INK!

[siszam]

I grew up eating poke this plant. My mother would pick young leaves and boil them. She would change the water twice. It never made us ill. She was careful to tell me never to pick older, larger leaves.

[Kennedale01]

The edible portion (the shoots less than 8 or 10 inches tall) you mentioned just doesn't seem worth the trouble. But apparently a lot of rural folks eat them just like any other green. Took me forever to identify this plant after purchasing our first house last May; they were growing wild out back...towering over the 6ft fence.

[deadheat130]

Indians are said to have used the plant to stun and catch fish. It doesn't kill the fish just stuns them so they float to the top.

[PissedFechtmeister]

I attempted to eat one of the berries once. Absolutely the most repulsive thing I've ever tasted.