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Can someone guide me to some web sites that list plants that are safe (as well as the toxic ones) for turtles? Preferably, one that lists plants by their common names. Neither my turtles nor I are botanists, so scientific names are useless!

Ideally you should know both names (Latin and common), because common names vary, are shared, change regionally, and so forth. In other words, common names can be unreliable.

Edible list: http://www.anapsid.org/resources/edible.html

Toxic list: http://www.chelonia.org/Articles/plantsthatpoison.htm

May apples appear on both the lists linked above, and yet Eastern box turtles will eat them without ill effect. In fact, T.c.c is the only know disperser of may apple seeds (according to the literature I have here).

Her's oa another toxic plant list: http://www.tortoise.org/general/poisonp.html
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Tess Cook
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