About Phytolacca icosandra L.
Phytolacca icosandra, sometimes called button pokeweed or tropical pokeweed, is a species of flowering plant. It is native to the neotropics and has been introduced to warmer areas of the western United States. This plant can grow up to 3 meters tall. Its leaves measure 10 to 20 centimeters in length and 9 to 14 centimeters in width. Flowers grow in racemes that are 10 to 15 centimeters long; each individual flower is 5 to 10 millimeters in diameter, and has between 8 and 20 stamens. The species epithet icosandra means "twenty stamens". The fruit it produces is a black berry 5 to 8 millimeters in diameter. Raphides are abundant in at least the leaves, red petioles, and midribs.
