Family: Phytolaccaceae
Phytolacca octandra
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Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Ink weed, red-ink weed, poke weed.
Description:
Herbaceous perennial, sometimes over 2 m high; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 4-8 cm long, shortly petiolate.
Flowers white, almost sessile in pedunculate racemes, bisexual; stamens and carpels 8, the latter united in fruit to form a depressed-globular purplish-black berry, depressed at the summit and bluntly 8-ribbed.
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Image source: fig. 100 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
C. Lamp & F. Collet (1976) Weeds in Australia, p. 242.
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SL. Naturalised in W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Native to tropical America.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: throughout the year.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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