pokeberries

Civil War soldiers used the dye from purple pokeberries to write letters home.

2010 April | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World 2010

If Africa grows the pokeberries, they could take it home.

Pokeberries Could Be the Key to Spreading Affordable Solar Power Around the World | Impact Lab 2010

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Nanotech Center scientists have used the red dye made from pokeberries to coat their efficient and inexpensive fiber-based solar cells.

Pokeberries Could Be the Key to Spreading Affordable Solar Power Around the World | Impact Lab 2010

So snakes are venomous, while pokeberries are poisonous...

Don’t Laugh; They’re "Special" Jen 2008

Mash and strain ripe pokeberries; to each pint of juice put a pound of sugar; boil them together till it becomes a jelly; when cold put it in

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

While this was going on the Indian who had been in pursuit of her husband returned with his hands stained with pokeberries, waving his tomahawk with violent gestures as if to convey the belief that he had killed Mr. Daviess.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

It was made on a piece of paper torn out of an old account book and the ruling and heading I did with pokeberries, according to the "Form" provided by the adjutant of the regiment.

One of Jackson's foot cavalry : his experience and what he saw during the war 1861-1865, including a history of "F Company," Richmond, Va., 21st Regiment Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division, Second Corps, A. N. Va., John H Worsham 1912

"Now, if we just only had some pokeberries to paint us red, we'd be real, for sure enough Indians, and we could go on the warpath and fight all the other tribes and burn a lot of them at the stake."

A Girl of the Limberlost 1909

Inside and along the fence, pokeberries, elders, sassafras, and sumac grew high and dense.

Whirligigs O. Henry 1886