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? about feeding mums

Cdp75 Nov 06, 2005 01:39 AM

I bought some yellow mums like I do every year and was wondering if my russians could eat them. I looked on russiantortoise.org and it wasn't listed.
Anyone know?

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bradtort Nov 07, 2005 11:10 AM

This reptile website says mums are toxic:

www.anapsid.org/resources/toxic.html

Quote:

These plants are in addition to those found in Susan Barnard's Harmful & Poisonous Plants listing.

Compiled by Melissa Kaplan

The following plants have been found on other toxic plant lists or I have found them referred to in various types of literature. I myself will not permit my herbivores to eat them.

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CHRYSANTHEMUM. These are the plants from which the pesticide pyrethrin is extracted.

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