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Phytolacca americana, P. decandra, P. rigida, American night shade, coakum, crow-berry, pokeberry, inkberry, pigeonberry, garget, poke, red ink plant, cancer jalap, cancer root, chongras, and scoke (Anonymous, 1991)
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Knight-Trent, A.H., Cupp, M.J. (2000). Pokeweed. In: Cupp, M.J. (eds) Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology of Herbal Products. Forensic Science and Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-020-9_22
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