Honeysuckle?

[ILoveTorts&Gerbils]

I read somewhere that honeysuckle is safe to feed. Now, I have a honeysuckle plant growing in my garden - no pesticides or weed killer. Plus, my room would smell nice!

Is it true that it's safe to feed? And do you use the whole flower, or just the leaves?

 

[DawnH]

I read somewhere that honeysuckle is safe to feed. Now, I have a honeysuckle plant growing in my garden - no pesticides or weed killer. Plus, my room would smell nice!

Is it true that it's safe to feed? And do you use the whole flower, or just the leaves?

http://www.thetortoisetable.org.uk/site/plants_19.asp?st=true&mode=main&catID=158

 

[Kapidolo Farms]

I use flowers and leaves from Cape honeysuckle, and common Honeysuckle. The leaves are 'tolerated' the flowers eaten in abundance without hesitation. Many years ago I had an iguana graze a giant honeysuckle bush down to the plants eventual death.

As for saponins, like most compounds in plants they are both potentially beneficial and detrimental. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saponin so in a varied mixed diet where the tortoise is not restricted to eating honeysuckle alone, you are okay to offer it.

Will

 

[Prairie Mom]

Some honeysuckle create berries. -I've heard these are poisonous. Otherwise, everything else is fine just as everyone said.

 

[DawnH]

Wow - I wrote some nice text with my link and I just noticed it's gone. No more typing before coffee for me!

Honeysuckle = good.

Berries = no bueno.