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
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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
Snap dragon flowers, they can eat the whole thing
stem included.
Brixley ox tongue
Trefoil
Hedge Mustard
Pansy
Petunia
Mimulas
Jack by the hedge
Greater plantain
Vetch
Sedum <sedum acre 'biting
stonecrop' is toxic
speedwell
pyramidal Bugle
Mallow leaves
Bitter cress
Garlic mustard (jack by the hedge)
Aubritia
pulmonaria
Common Chickweed
habiscus syriacus
Buddleia flowers
Aubretia
Bitter Cress
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
Goats Beard
Hedge Mustard
Forget me knots
Herb Robert
Hibiscus
Honeysuckle - flowers
Mimulas
Mulberry leaves
Rose (flowers....make sure no systemic pesticides were
used) Roses leaves act as a diuretic so offer on the occasion if at all, flowers are fine.
Self Heal
Sticky Bud (cleavers) contains Glycosides so feed sparingly
Viola
hawkbits
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)
