Tortoise Food Plants

These products are particularly useful for giving your tortoise a chance to eat a plant or weed that you havent had a chance to successfully grow yourself.

Tortoise food plants. Timothy hay phleum pretense native bunch grasses including. Heres a quick a z guide to help you find information about plants using their common name. Jade plant crassula argentea. Bermuda common bermuda is preferred not hybrid.

The food tortoises eat plays a major role in their growth shell hardness and overall health and that is why the best food for a tortoise is what you should feed it with. Please let us know by. These small to medium sized succulents are very easy to propagate from cuttings and will even grow from individual leaves. Various types of tortoises enjoy weeds plants and other edible greens.

More edible plant lists can be found in the helpful links section as can lists of dangerous plants. Big galleta pleuraphis rigida. Ivy geranium pelargonium pelatum has a trailing habit is within reach of tortoises. Prepared tortoise chows especially mazuri tortoise diet zoo med natural grassland tortoise food or zoo med natural forest tortoise food.

Recommended foods for herbivorous tortoises. Worms snails slugs millipedes insect larvae bugs pet or feed store foods. For example i have a dry mix that includes red clover marigold and plantain. If the plant you are needing information on is not listed yet.

You can feed these types of plants to the following species. The tortoise table plant database and resource site for tortoise owners. You will find pictures and information on whether the plant you have is suitable for feeding to your tortoise. Verbena verbena spp white to purple.

Safe plants for tortoises one of the common problems faced by tortoise keepers is which plants are safe to feed to their tortoises. There are a lot of plants which are either native weeds or can be easily grown in a garden or on a windowsill which are safe for tortoises and are great for providing a varied diet. In other cases close relatives grow here. Sulcata tortoise leopard tortoise indian star tortoise aldabra tortoise burmese star tortoise russian tortoise greek tortoise.

It also includes plants favored by tortoises which grow in britain many mediterranean plants also grow here. Tortoise edible plants tortoise edible weeds that are safe for tortoises to eat including sulcata tortoise safe plants and more. The following list is largely derived from observations of tortoises feeding in the wild mainly greece and turkey by lin king. Blue grama bouteloua gracilis.

There are specially prepared dry tortoise foods available on the market which are a good way to add a bit of interest and variety to your tortoise diet.