NY HARBOR NATURE
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Welcome to NY Harbor

Pokeweed Grows in New York City

10/24/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phytolacca_decandra.jpg
N.Y. / REGION | 
N.Y.C. NATURE
The Vegetarian’s Puffer Fish
By DAVE TAFT
OCT. 5, 2017
​The New York Times
Pokeweed is at its most beautiful in early autumn. It is also at its most toxic. From its lovely purple-black berries to the very tip of its stout, white taproot, the plant is poison.
Consequently, it may seem strange that pokeweed is avidly sought out as a wild edible.

Songs have been written extolling pokeweed’s virtues. In fact, no less than Elvis Presley and Tom Jones covered Tony Joe White’s “Polk Salad Annie” — a song about more than just eating poke salad. I only hope Annie was harvesting and cooking her greens in the early spring.
​
At the point when its shoots are only a few inches tall, pokeweed can be harvested and boiled to make a basic cooked vegetable. But as the plant matures, the three-inch shoots grow to a towering, treelike plant with spreading bright magenta stems. These you do not want to eat
Continue Reading at The New York Times
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed

    Picture
    Picture
    STOP THE WILLIAMS FRACKED GAS PIPELINE THROUGH NY HARBOR!
    MY TOP 5 FAVORITE BOOKS ABOUT NY HARBOR

    1. Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City by Leslie Day

    2.Heartbeats in the Muck by John Waldman

    3. The Fisheries of Raritan Bay by Clyde L. MacKenzie Jr. 

    4. Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan by Phillip Lopate

    5. The Bottom of the Harbor by Joseph Mitchell
    Picture
    Picture

    Archives

    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Welcome to NY Harbor