is this plant toxic?

[eudora09]

http://nancybond.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/celosia1.jpg

I can't find anything saying if it's toxic or not. We used to plant them all the time back home and we called them "rooster tails" and I like what they look like but didn't know if it was safe for Belle or not. Does anyone know? Lowes calls them "Feather Celosia spp."

 

[Len B]

I know it as cockscomb,and pretty sure it is safe.Len

 

[eudora09]

I know it as cockscomb,and pretty sure it is safe.Len

Thanks! I'm redoing my tortoise enclosure today and wanted to check on some plants that I was planing on putting in there and that was the only one that I couldn't find on the tortoise table website.

 

[Missy]

Did you grow them yourself? I never use plants straight from the nursery because they use chemicals. Some people do but I am to afraid that it could make them sick.

 

[Yvonne G]

Celosia is edible.

 

[eudora09]

Did you grow them yourself? I never use plants straight from the nursery because they use chemicals. Some people do but I am to afraid that it could make them sick.

I'm getting them from my mom. She has a ton of plants that come back every year and so she said that I could come get what I want and I know they are safe that way. She originally got them from Lowes but this was last year and they died and grew back from the seeds that the dead plants left over the winter. So now I got 3 celosia, 2 dianthus, a hibiscus plant, and a piece of honeysuckle. Now just got to put them in her enclosure!

 

[Countrymouse]

I'm a newbie on the list with an interest in feeding "home grown" and as natural as possible. Just double check before you plant the Honey suckle. It can be very aggressive and I seem to remember reading that although the blossom is o.k. to feed, the leaves are not recommended.

Did you grow them yourself? I never use plants straight from the nursery because they use chemicals. Some people do but I am to afraid that it could make them sick.

I'm getting them from my mom. She has a ton of plants that come back every year and so she said that I could come get what I want and I know they are safe that way. She originally got them from Lowes but this was last year and they died and grew back from the seeds that the dead plants left over the winter. So now I got 3 celosia, 2 dianthus, a hibiscus plant, and a piece of honeysuckle. Now just got to put them in her enclosure!

 

[Yvonne G]

I'm a newbie on the list with an interest in feeding "home grown" and as natural as possible. Just double check before you plant the Honey suckle. It can be very aggressive and I seem to remember reading that although the blossom is o.k. to feed, the leaves are not recommended.

Hi Countrymouse:

Won't you take a few minutes and make out an introductory post in the "introductions" section?

But in the mean time...Welcome to the forum!!

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Some types of honeysuckle are toxic. The leaves of the Japanese honeysuckle have large quantities of saponins that are harmful to birds. So it behooves you to know what type of honeysuckle you're talking about. Here's a good article on it:

http://www.druidry.org/obod/trees/honeysuckle.html