Hello, please help me to id these vegetables below.
I think they from the brassica families, but I don't read fly know their name in English as which one is good for my torto.

the top one i think is boch choy

AustinASU Wrote:the top one i think is boch choy

Ok thanks Austin.

Anyone can help id the other two and whether they okay to feed to torto?

Bok Choy I thought I read as a no food for them (but yummy for us!)
The one on the right I see so often yet can't place! Ugh :[
Chinese cabbage! It came to me not sure as food though.

Masin Wrote:Bok Choy I thought I read as a no food for them (but yummy for us!)
The one on the right I see so often yet can't place! Ugh :[
Chinese cabbage! It came to me not sure as food though.

I think bokchoy is fine a long as you give in small quantity as part of the diet only.
I believe that's what people believe here

Now, anyone to id the other veggies?

Chinese cabbage on the right (I see a theme!) still wondering about the left.

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Oh, Bok is ok? I dunno what you have, I have a sulcata.

(09-04-2012 04:42 AM)Masin Wrote:  Chinese cabbage on the right (I see a theme!) still wondering about the left.

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Oh, Bok is ok? I dunno what you have, I have a sulcata.

Ok so right one is chinese cabbage.

I have aldabra, marginata and red foot. Food is similar to sulcata, grass or hay for major
I just use bokchoy as part of the diet, small quantity per week for them.

No, that's not bok choy. Bok choy looks just like the second picture only with white stems and very dark green leaves.

You can feed all that to your tortoise but only about once a week. You are correct in assuming that they are all in the brassica family.

(09-04-2012 06:44 AM)emysemys Wrote:  No, that's not bok choy. Bok choy looks just like the second picture only with white stems and very dark green leaves.

You can feed all that to your tortoise but only about once a week. You are correct in assuming that they are all in the brassica family.

Thank you Yvonne, only I a bit hate to feed the white one. It is too watery and made the poop a bit runny

2nd picture is bokchoy...3rd picture is napa cabbage or chinese cabbage or baicai in mandarin

1st picture is another type of brassicaceae that I've eaten before, but I can't remember the name...I think it was Youcai in mandarin but I don't know the english or scientific genus species for it. When I google it, it shows up as "rapeseed" or "rape" which is the old name for the plant that produces Canola oil, however the pictures don't quite match yours and what I've seen...could be the same thing, but just a variety grown for its foliage instead of it's seed oil and flowerhead. Were you to cook it for yourself, you'd probably want to quick blanch it in some boiling water w/sesame oil can't say how or whether it should be presented to your torts

looks like you were shopping in an Asian market: these are all commonly found in the Ranch99s and other markets here in Southern California

The second is a "baby bok-choy" plant. I rotate it in and out of my torts' diet. It has a good Ca/Ph ratio.

(09-06-2012 09:52 AM)redbeef Wrote:  2nd picture is bokchoy...3rd picture is napa cabbage or chinese cabbage or baicai in mandarin

1st picture is another type of brassicaceae that I've eaten before, but I can't remember the name...I think it was Youcai in mandarin but I don't know the english or scientific genus species for it. When I google it, it shows up as "rapeseed" or "rape" which is the old name for the plant that produces Canola oil, however the pictures don't quite match yours and what I've seen...could be the same thing, but just a variety grown for its foliage instead of it's seed oil and flowerhead. Were you to cook it for yourself, you'd probably want to quick blanch it in some boiling water w/sesame oil can't say how or whether it should be presented to your torts

looks like you were shopping in an Asian market: these are all commonly found in the Ranch99s and other markets here in Southern California

LOL I am from indonesia, indeed asian country.

Thanks for the id-ing

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(09-06-2012 09:59 AM)mctlong Wrote:  The second is a "baby bok-choy" plant. I rotate it in and out of my torts' diet. It has a good Ca/Ph ratio.

Yes, that's what my mom's calling it. Xiao baicai (baby bokchoy).

So you mean the baby bok choy is the best of the three for Ca/P ratio?