Plant I.D please

Yvonne G

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Can't see enough of it to tell. Any chance you can get a picture of the whole plant?
 

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Looks like something in the spurge family. It's high in oxalates, but the tortoises in whose natural range it grows eat it.
 

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Right. He probably won't eat it, but a bit every now and then is not harmful.
 

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Interesting note on this weed. If I pick a piece off and give it to either of the tortoises they eat all of it.
And as the plant gets older all the leaves developed the brown spot on them. Ignore the dead lavendar plant it is growing between. 20180203_191844.jpg
 

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Wow. I couldn't find it. You are good at this. Yes it looks exactly like that except the stalk is whiter. Will be pulling it out and throwing away. Strange that the torts like it so much. Just shows you. Do you also by Any chance know what the other one is? I haven't been alble to find it either.
It's not a plantain, but does look familiar.
I shall think on it
 
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