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To: blam
Just be careful!

I know you are, Bill.

However, wild hemlock, or pokeweed, here in the South have very similar looking berries. The leaf on pokeweed is much bigger and broader. If you consume pokeweed berries, you will die.

Pokeweed berries:


182 posted on 01/28/2018 7:11:17 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
"However, wild hemlock, or pokeweed, here in the South have very similar looking berries. The leaf on pokeweed is much bigger and broader. If you consume pokeweed berries, you will die."

Thanks. I know about 'Polk Salad' and do know the difference between the two. They do grow in close proximity on my trails.

186 posted on 01/28/2018 7:33:44 AM PST by blam
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