pie plant

pie plant

n. See rhubarb.

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pie plant - long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preservesgarden rhubarb, Rheum cultorum, Rheum rhabarbarum, Rheum rhaponticumrhubarb plant, rhubarb - plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous