Yep no flower yet.Nice giant leaves. But the bird of paradise I know of is a flower. Are yours the same, just no flower on them yet?
Nope. Even in a planter. Basically nothing is Manouria proof except bamboo. HahIs it Manouria proof? Ha!
I'm sure they're probably listed. I've never had the. Available to any of the torts though. I do know if these were placed in with the Manouria, even in a pot. It would be gone. They would topple it over and bam eat it all toxic or not. Manouria crack me up.I thought bird's of paradise were toxic? Or is it just not to manouria, like Alocasia/Colocasia?
They look like mini banana's to me, haha.
They're cousins to the banana actually.I thought bird's of paradise were toxic? Or is it just not to manouria, like Alocasia/Colocasia?
They look like mini banana's to me, haha.
Mmmmmm yeah JD
Yep me too. Seen some in Costa Rica and panama about 40+ feet. Stocks at the trunk 18" thick and 8' wide. Love them.Those are awesome. I think I like the tall version better, though.
Hey Kelly, at least two or three kinds are very popular here in San Diego, literally thousands per shopping mall etc. I did some looking up and found the most planted variety here was a southern African native. Leopards won't touch it there based on a reach out to some RSA tortoise people, and it's not listed on any of the animal feed sites (not toxic lists mind you, but feed on purpose sites). I agree they look great, but why nor plant lots of stuff they can eat? There are so many things they can eat you know, like banana, which looks similar, and is nearly as hardy.I'm really loving these guys. Can't wait to get them back in the greenhouse this fall. Very fast tropical growing plant for sure.
Got some new leaves coming out on all the plants.
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Yes indeed Will. I completely agree. I have not facilitated the growth of greens yet. But numerous other feeding options I do grow here. Every summer I have gourd, squash(5 varieties), watermelon, plenty of cacti, and lots of tomatoe plants, along with hibiscus(Korean and South African) the mass numbers of the tortoises here requires a large row of kale, dandelions, and greens to supply adequately. Right now we go through 6 boxes of kale from California, 4 boxes of Texas curly kale, 3 boxes of red tip, 10 boxes of turnip, collards or mustard, 3 boxes of endive(hard to get in mass quantity here) 80 pounds of oyster mushrooms, and 20 pounds of button mushrooms. Finally about 300 pounds of squash and Jerusalem melons(Kinixys favorite) each month it's quite an order added up with 4 deliveries each week from my local produce stand girl. All locally grown(except California kale) and sometimes Papaya from Central America. But I have entertained the option of a greenhouse for this method of growing our own. Mainly dandelions, and far more nutritious items for them. Lots of the enclosures for the smaller species like Angulata, all the grazing Kinixys, chilensis, Kleinmanni etc... Have wheat grass sprouts mixed with dandelion, clover sprouts in their enclosure. I have to rotate trays out as they eat all of it in very rapid time.Hey Kelly, at least two or three kinds are very popular here in San Diego, literally thousands per shopping mall etc. I did some looking up and found the most planted variety here was a southern African native. Leopards won't touch it there based on a reach out to some RSA tortoise people, and it's not listed on any of the animal feed sites (not toxic lists mind you, but feed on purpose sites). I agree they look great, but why nor plant lots of stuff they can eat? There are so many things they can eat you know, like banana, which looks similar, and is nearly as hardy.
Just curious why plant anything not edible? On FB pages for Ty Park, a major breeder of herbivours lizards, he laments the cost of feeding, yet there he is in FLA and all the ground in the world, and he plants non-edible stuff. What's up with that? you know. I guess it's the difference between a feedlot like operation and a grazing operation. I tend to see the grazing method a bit better. You can alway supplement with other things, but grow grow grow, it's fun, I like husbanding plants as much as the tortoises.
At the Philly Zoo we had a browse farm, neglected by many keepers, but highly utilized by me for the Corucia and tortoises.