Tecoma capensis for a leopard?

[TheLastGreen]

Is this plant Tecoma capensis, the cape honeysuckle? Could I feed it to a leopard tort?

 

[Tom]

The leaves look right, but the variety we have over here has red flowers.

There are roughly 3000 different plant and succulent species in the American SouthWest. There are more than 22,000 in South Africa. Let that math sink in for a minute...

 

[TheLastGreen]

The Cape Honeysuckle has several cultivars with flower colors ranging from yellow, apricot, orange, and red

 

[TheLastGreen]

Found this on the internet, so it seems fine, the leaves seem a bit spread out, but I do think it is cape honeysuckle

 

[Lyn W]

This is what the Tortoise table says

Search The Tortoise Table Database

Search the Tortoise Table Database

www.thetortoisetable.org.uk

I would think better safe than sorry.

 

[RosemaryDW]

Hmm, I did not realize this plant was related to the Tacoma Stans in my yard, which I have never seen spelled with an "e" rather than an "a." They look very similar but I've always thought they weren't related.

Tacoma Stans, at least, is a native food for Western U.S. desert tortoises. It's well loved by my Russian and fed by a fair number of owners.

More importantly than anything I know is that Cape Honeysuckle has been judged safe by one of our most knowledgeable plant experts; if not the most knowledgeable: https://www.tortoiseforum.org/threa...t-it-is-cape-honeysuckle.122487/#post-1131864. And fed by one of our most experienced breeders, Tom.