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


Trefoil

Hedge Mustard

Pansy

Petunia


Mimulas

Jack by the hedge

Greater plantain


Slender plantain

Ribwort plantain


Vetch

Sedum stonecrop' is toxic

<sedum acre 'biting


speedwell

pyramidal Bugle

Mallow leaves


Bitter cress

Garlic mustard (jack by the hedge)

Aubritia


speedwell

Hosta

Coleus or flame nettle


Aloe Vera Arista

Nipple wart

nasturtium


pulmonaria

Common Chickweed

habiscus syriacus


Buddleia flowers

Aubretia

Bitter Cress


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


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


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)


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