Is this a plantain?

[hunterk997]

I have these growing all over the yard, and my tortoise eats them, but I stop her because I don't know if it's okay for her to eat. What is it? I think it might be a plantain, not the fruit kind

They grow in cluster, those leaves growing around the main part of the plant. Can anyone help?

 

[yagyujubei]

Your first pic is too dark. Is this it? http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/WEEDS/buckhorn_plantain.html

 

[hunterk997]

Your first pic is too dark. Is this it? http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/WEEDS/buckhorn_plantain.html

It looks similar to that. I will be able to get a picture of the whole pant soon so I will post one soon

 

[hunterk997]

I took some pictures of it still in the ground:

 

[Levi the Leopard]

That doesn't look like the plantain i have growing in my area.
I'll take a picture of them so you can see the differences.

Heather
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[JoesMum]

It looks very like plantains that I am familar with in the UK

 

[Levi the Leopard]

Re: RE: Is this a plantain?

It looks very like plantains that I am familar with in the UK

Maybe it's an area thing? I'll post the pics of my so Cal plantain soon...

Heather
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[hunterk997]

I live in New York state. I looked them up online, it looks very similar, she loves to eat them.

 

[Levi the Leopard]

Here are pictures of my local wild grown plantain weed.

I don't know if there are different varieties. Maybe.. ??

Not the best pictures, sorry.

Heather
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[GBtortoises]

Looks like narrow leaf plantain. Broad leaf plantian has more round leaves and tends to grow out more not upward like narrow leaf.

 

[Tom]

Yes it is plantain, and its a great food for them.


Heather, your plantain is our Southern CA dry climate, anemic, barely alive and surviving in a lawn version of plantain...

 

[Levi the Leopard]

Re: RE: Is this a plantain?

Heather, your plantain is our Southern CA dry climate, anemic, barely alive and surviving in a lawn version of plantain...

I see.
I knew it looked different

My guys love love this stuff!

OP, glad you got your answer



Heather
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[hunterk997]

Here are pictures of my local wild grown plantain weed.

I don't know if there are different varieties. Maybe.. ??

Not the best pictures, sorry.

Heather
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I also have thos here. I just avoided them because I wasn't sure if they were a different type of plantain or if it was something different. But the tortoise table website says all varieties of plantian sre good for tortoises, so I guess the kind doesn't matter?

 

[Levi the Leopard]

I guess not.

Heather
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