Edible plant and weeds list for tortoises

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Edible plant and weeds list for tortoises

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Dandelion,

stalks are diuretics so offer the stalks rarely if ever. The leaves and flowers are fine.

Smooth Cats Ear

Sheppard’s purse

Plantain

CAMPANULA: EDIBLE

lavatera

You can also take cuttings from the plants and get them to grow roots if left standing in

a jar of water in a windowsill for a few weeks.

Black Merdick

Milk Thistle

Hebe

Fuschia

Sow thistle

yarrow

Sweet Violet

Snap dragon flowers, they can eat the whole thing

stem included.

Brixley ox tongue

Mimulas

Jack by the hedge

Greater plantain

Slender plantain

Ribwort plantain

speedwell

pyramidal Bugle

Mallow leaves

speedwell

Hosta

Coleus or flame nettle

Aloe Vera Arista

Nipple wart

nasturtium

Cuckoo

Flower

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cransbil

hedge cransbil

Dead Nettle: (Dead nettles have a square shaped

stem) Dead nettles look like stinging nettles but they don’t sting and have either white

or purple flowers Dead Nettle

Garlic Mustard

Sticky Bud (cleavers) contains Glycosides so feed sparingly

Viola

hawkbits

Henbit

Chrysanthemum flowers

Cornflowers Plagiobothrys ssp

Forsythia (flowers and leaves)

Dayflower Commelina Diffusa

(flowers and leaves)

Pereskiopsis... love the leaves

Opuntia cactus...Elata is good as it doesn't have too many spines

Opuntia subulata is

good one too as it has little soft leaves ideal for smaller torts

Aloe aristata...Not quite so juicy as aloe vera,

aloe vera in small quantities

agave but be careful of the sharp sides and

spike to the leaf

Echeveria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echeveria

Indica Pads,

Robusta Pads (optunia)

Stenpatala

Prickly pear

flowers, fruit and pads (burn the spines off)