Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-    Plate No. 931

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-COMMON_NAMES- Virginian Poke
-GENUS- Phytolacca
-SPECIES- Phytolacca decandra
-CLASS- Decandria
-ORDER- Decagynia
-AUTHORITY- Linnaeus

-MODERN_GENUS- Phytolacca
-MODERN_SPECIES- Phytolacca americana
-MODERN_FAMILY- Phytolaccaceae

-PLANT_TYPE- hardy perennial
-COLOR- greenish white
-SEASON- July
-NATIVE_REGION- Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Barbary, Virginia, 
New England and Jamaica (perhaps imported to Europe from America)

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 24
-PUB_DATE- 1806
-REISSUED- 
-EDITOR- John Sims
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- Disc 0428 IMG0053.PCD