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hello i am trying to identify these two plants! i have included two pictures of each plant, i think the first one looks like some variation of hollyhock and the second looks like some variation of geranium?
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The first one is some kind of mallow. Maybe not hollyhock but in the same family. All the mallows are safe.

The second one could be a wild geranium or a buttercup. Both are safe for a testudo (buttercups get a bad rap from old data, they're fine). You can wait a flower to decide for sure. Pink or purple flower: geranium. Yellow: buttercup.
 

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Ooh, I'm getting a third hit for the last one: sanicula crassicaulis. It's a carrot relative, I've never seen it. This group of plants is safe but I'd skip it until you see a flower. If it's this plant it probably doesn't taste good anyway.
 

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Ooh, I'm getting a third hit for the last one: sanicula crassicaulis. It's a carrot relative, I've never seen it. This group of plants is safe but I'd skip it until you see a flower. If it's this plant it probably doesn't taste good anyway.
i took quite a bit already i’ll just feed some to my tortoise tomorrow i suppose!
 

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The first one is some kind of mallow. Maybe not hollyhock but in the same family. All the mallows are safe.

The second one could be a wild geranium or a buttercup. Both are safe for a testudo (buttercups get a bad rap from old data, they're fine). You can wait a flower to decide for sure. Pink or purple flower: geranium. Yellow: buttercup.
great thank you, i’ll feed all to my hermanns, i gave him some of the mallow looking plant and he loved it 😊
 

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