cactus

[lynnedit]

Is this cactus Tort safe?

 

[Torty Mom]

Sorry no clue on the cactus, but I love your tortie names!!

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

I also do not know for sure.

 

[Tom]

I've never fed that one and only recently learned that some cactus species have some toxicity to them.

 

[lynnedit]

I will hold off unless someone ID's it for sure. (Why does everything I see look like potential Tortoise food)?

 

[Tom]

I will hold off unless someone ID's it for sure. (Why does everything I see look like potential Tortoise food)?

Oh its not just you!!! EVERYWHERE I go in the whole world, I'm scoping out the tortoise food. When I was down south I would comment on the "great tortoise food down here" as we passed every vacant lot with three foot tall dandelions and giant plantain "bushes". My wife and I constantly fight over what to plant and how to fertilize our back yard. No torts even live there, but if we are going to water a plant and make it grow, why not grow something they can eat? She just wants pretty stuff that will live and look nice. I want to farm my own tortoise food.

She actually put a bag of "Weed and Feed" in our cart at Lowes the other day. I was mortified!!! I think she just did it to watch me flip out... which I did...

 

[yagyujubei]

NO, that's not a cactus, it'a an Euphorbia, and POISONOUS.

 

[lynnedit]

That's that, then! It gets to live.
Thanks for the info.
(And Tom, I imagine I will still look at the plant world differently from now on as well!)