Photo: Phytolacca americana 3.

Unripe seedhead and leaf. Botanical garden Kumpula, Helsinki, Finland. Planted. 2004-09-17.

Phytolacca americana L.
Engl.: American pokeweed, poke root, American poke, cancer-root, coakum, garget, inkberry, pigeon berry, pocan, poke, pokeweed, skoke, Virginia poke.
Deu.: Amerikanische Kermesbeere.
Suom.: kermesmarja.
Sven.: amerikanskt kermesbär, sminkbär.
Ital.: fitolacca.
Bot. syn.: Phytolacca decandra L..
Pre-Linnaean: Phytolacca americana majori fructu, Solanum racemosum magnum virginianum rubrum, Solanum virginianum rubrum maximum racemosum baccis torulis canaliculatis