Plant ID Help?

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Yvonne G

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Oh wow, Phil...how lucky are you? Two great tortoise food plants!!

The first is mallow, a very hard to get rid of weed that is edible for tortoises, and the second is plantain, also edible and hard to eliminate.
 

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sweet!!! thx Yvonne!
Are the plants completely edible? (all parts)
And I keep my russian indoors and feed her once a day, should I pick a bunch of both of these and put a pile in her enclosure for her to graze on?
 

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Does mallow produce seeds?
 

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DOES MALLOW PRODUCE SEEDS???? Oh man! Ask anyone who is trying to pull the plants out of their garden this question! YES!! If you watch for the tiny little plantlets that first sprout up out of the ground, the second thing it produces, right after the two little leaves, is a round seed pod plumb FULL of seeds to re-populate the earth!
 

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Anyone have some seeds for sale?
 

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demo183 said:
sweet!!! thx Yvonne!
Are the plants completely edible? (all parts)
And I keep my russian indoors and feed her once a day, should I pick a bunch of both of these and put a pile in her enclosure for her to graze on?

Yes, but the stem on the mallow plant is woody and they probably can't bite it. But that's ok. They'll eat around it.

I must qualify my edible statement. Yes, its edible, but some of my tortoises won't eat it, so I don't know how palatable it is.
 

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It is so funny....your mallow is COMPLETELY different that the mallow here in the high desert....while we do have this type of mallow our other native mallow(apricot mallow) is so different :D and that is so cool you have the plantain too....lucky !!!!!
 

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lmfao i find it hilarious everyone says im lucky, i figured they were just gonna be some crappy weed that has no nutrition and or is toxic lol. Hopefully she lifes them :D
 
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