Cynthia Whitehead
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Can Hermann tortoises eat tomato plants? I have grown lots from seeds and have extras and was wondering if they could eat the plants.
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It has alway been my understanding that tomato plants are highly toxic.
We don’t have a lot of real research on the safety of this plant for reptiles so I don’t like to call it a NO plant; that’s my general approach when researching something we don’t have solid evidence for. Much of the research used to decide whether a plant is “good” or “bad” comes from mammal studies, which I don’t find particularly useful.
That said, tomatoes are in the nightshade family and there is enough toxicity in some of the nightshades that I wouldn’t intentionally feed it. Maybe we’ll have better data some day right off xx now I pass.
That said, tomatoes are in the nightshade family and there is enough toxicity in some of the nightshades that I wouldn’t intentionally feed it. Maybe we’ll have better data some day right off xx now I pass.
Cynthia Whitehead
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Cynthia Whitehead
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Thank you so very much.
