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CAN YOU TELL THESE APART?
Kids pick these for pie every summer. One cluster of the look-alike sends them to the ER
SAFE
blackberries
Rubus spp.
berry made of many tiny beads, thorny arching canes
TOXIC
pokeweed
Phytolacca americana
smooth single round berries hanging from a bright magenta stalk, no thorns
How to tell them apart
Bumpy berry of many beads on a thorny cane = blackberry. Smooth berries on a pink-magenta stalk = pokeweed.
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