A few plants just for curiosity.

Yvonne G

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Cripes - a few??? Looks like a whole book!!

I'll give you what I think I know, but it's not much.

1 and 2 look like a type of crab grass - edible
3, 4 and 5 might be snow ball bush (but the leaves don't look quite the same)??
6 and 7 ???
8 looks like something from the pepper family - I wouldn't feed this one
9 ??
10 is spurge, edible but high in oxalates
11, 12 and 13 are oxalis. Also high in oxalates
I think 14 is the same as 9
15 and 16 ??
17 is pennywort. Don't know about it's edible quality
18 and 19 maybe a type of araceae ?????
20 wild rose
21 and 22 ??
23, 24 and 25 palm. The fruit of palm trees is usually edible, but don't take my word for it please
26 lucky bamboo NOT edible. Produces cyanide in the gut in mammals
 

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3, 4, and 5 are all the same plant.

9 looks the same as 14, because I have it in many other places I assume they are the same.

I thought 20 was a type of rose. Is it edible?

Thank you Yvonne! I don't know what I'd do without my plant folks!! :p
 

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I agree with Yvonne, for the most part.
1 and two are a grass I don't know.
3, 4, and 5 are Ixora. Not usually considered edible.
I don't recognize 6-9.
10, and 15-16 are spurges - not recommended.
11, 12 and 13 Oxalis. Not as a regular part of the diet.
Same for 17 - Hydrocotyl or maybe Cymbalaria
18 and 19 are a Philodendron - Not good.
20 is a landscape rose. OK
21-22 is probably Tulbaghia - not palatable.
I would not let the palm or the "lucky bamboo" (Dracaena sp.) be eaten.
 

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now many people have constructed a burrow for the tort that is actually underground and mimics what the tortoise would carve out in the wild?
anyone let their tortoise carve his own burrow but maybe limit how deep and long it is?
Okay, thank you for your time!
 

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