[NAFEX] Poke greens

Ernest Plutko ernestplutko at wiktel.com
Sun May 18 20:04:13 EDT 2008


I believe you are talking about pokeweed which has numerous dark
purple berries. It was common in West Virginia when I lived there. 
My wife comes from West Virginia but she doesn't know of anyone
eating pokeweed greens.  Pokeweed contains a number of poisons.  My
wife thinks people in southern West Virginia might eat pokeweed
greens.  If you boil pokeweed you could get rid of some poison but I
don't know if you could get rid of all the poison.

---- Original Message ----
From: jhecksel at voyager.net
To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Poke greens
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:19:03 -0400

>Hello all:
>
>Seems like I read that poke greens contain a carcinogen.  Can anybody
>
>substantiate or refute?
>
>We have a pretty good crop of them and I want to try them, but not if
>
>they have been linked to a significant increase in the risk of
>cancer.
>
>On another note, we have a wild turkey nesting in the vineyard. 
>Also, 
>something has been browsing the top 8" of the nettle shoots.  I
>suspect 
>deer.  They are either very, very hungry to risk the sting, or they
>have 
>some way of neutralizing them.  Always something new to observe and 
>marvel over.
>
>-Joe
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