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Tortoises Eating Flower

Here are all the flowers, weeds, and common household/garden plants that are good for tortoises:
— Hibiscus
— calendula (marigolds)
— roses (petals, leaves, and hips)
— Bachelor buttons (flowers only)
— clover
— dandelion
— mallows
— yellow ice
— sedum (except “biting stonecrop” which is toxic)
— prickly pear cactus (pads and fruit)
— plantain (NOT the banana-like fruit but the low-growing weed)
— chia
— Bermuda grass
— Timothy hay
— hostas
— wild strawberries (the tiny wild ones are sugar free and can be fed regularly, but the big ones you get from the supermarket that we eat are no good for them. The strawberry plant is good for them also)
— cucumber
— bell peppers (plant and flowers only)
— raspberries, blackberries, and currants (plant and flowers only, no fruit)
— creeping phlox
— day lilies (flowers)
— nasturtiums
— donkeygrass
— Lamium (dead nettle)
— chickweed
— chicory
— California poppy
— yarrow
— hollyhock
— Lady’s mantle
— aloe vera
— shepherd’s purse
— thistle
— English daisy
— purple loosestrife
— sweet potato (leaves)
— Mulberry (leaves)
— petunia
— grapes (leaves)
— field pansy
— fig (leaves)
— herbs, such as rosemary, oregano, and sage
— squash and pumpkins (the germinating shoots are toxic, but once they have completed germinating and got their second set of leaves the plants are perfectly fine. I even grind up a few raw squash/pumpkin seeds and feed that to them once a year because they are known to kill worms and parasites.)
The list is endless. You might consider joining the tortoise nutrition Yahoo! group. That’s a mailing list that discusses the identification of backyard weeds and what’s safe to feed to tortoises. You might also want to take a look at russiantortoise.org, a website dedicated to Horsfields tortoises.

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