Video Pokeweed, Inwood
Pokeweed, Inwood
Pokeweed is a large and coarse herbaceous weed with big leaves, a stout reddish trunk, widely branching reddish stems, and elongated erect clusters of small white flowers that give way to drooping clusters of dark purple berries. In addition to eating the young shoots and leaves, native Americans and early American settlers made a crimson dye from the berry juice.The pokeberry fruit is highly toxic and should not be eaten. Its berries are said to have provided ink for the US Constitution.
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Signed art prints donated by three extraordinary artists are available for purchase in our art prints store, to support the programs we are engaged in. The prints include, among others, "Last Turn Your Turn" created by Robert Rauschenberg for the Earth Summit, Christo sketches of "The Gates,” a public art event by Christo and his wife Jeanne Claude that drew millions to Central Park, and "Manifest Destiny," by Alexis Rockman, showing New York City underwater in the future as a result of climate change.