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Ok, I know I have seen it posted on here before, but can't seem to find it presently. Probably I am too lazy to keep looking......anyway......can someone please post the site that lists which plants are toxic and which aren't to box turtles?

I was at Home Depot yesterday and wanted to get some plants to put in the enclosure and also some vines to plant on the outside of the pen to let them climb up and kind of hide the pen from view from outside the yard. Anyway.....it dawned on me that what I was thinking of planting might not be wise! So, I would love to see a list so I can buy plants that are not harmful to the boxies. Thank-you in advance! .....9boxies

I have lots of those URLS saved up.
I just got this first one the other day:

http://www.moondance-sugargliders.com/sugar_glider_plant-tree_information.htm

http://envhort.ucdavis.edu/ce/king/PoisPlant/Tox-COM.htm

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/vex/vetdocs/toxic.htm

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/poison/poison.html

Good luck choosing safe plants.
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PHRatz

Thank-you! I will be busy checking those sites out so I can pick some good plants. I appreciate your posting the sites. I will have to write them down somewhere to have for future reference. Thanks again! ........9boxies

Keep in mind that many poisonous plant lists were compiled with humans in mind.

As an example, mayapples are relished by box turtles (in fact they are they only known disperser of mayapple seed), and yet all parts of the plant are toxic to humans: as a result mayapples turn up on many of these lists. Same goes for other plants or plant parts, as well as many kinds of mushrooms.

An alternative would be to use plants that box turtles are known to feed on, or use plants that are native to the box turtles range, which would eliminate some of the guesswork for you.

What Steph says is true. Plants posionous to people aren't necessarily harmfull to animals. For example, Lily of the Valley are supposed to be posionous to people. My chickens absolutely love them and devesate my lily beds. (And I eat their egss without any problem!). My turtles love to craw through them, but never eat them.

So, there is posionous, and then there is posionous! lol
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0.1.0 ornate box turtle
1.0.0 eastern box turtle
0.1.0 Australian shepard
1.9.0 chickens
3.2.0 children (do I still count the married ones?)
1.0.0 husband

At least two very experienced box turtle keepers I've learned from told me the "toxic plant" issue is one that, with a little common sense, you could completely forget about. So I did what was suggested above, i.e. get plants that wouldn't be too unusual in the places the turtles come from.