We had a huge bush pop up in our yard recently, but we had never seen it before. Doing an Internet search, we identified it as pokeweed. The info I found said that the new shoots are eaten as a salad green but that the plant become more poisonous as it gets older, especially when the stems and berries turn red or purple. Since its where kids can get into it, we'll be removing it as carefully as we can. There are a lot of plants that can be powerful for medicinal uses in very small does, but they don't have any business being where kids will be attracted to eat them.
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