Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Unsafe Vegetables, Fruits, and Plants for Guinea Pigs

FOOD / PLANT / FLOWER
 
Notes
Aconite
  
Anemone (windflower, tumbleweed)
  
Autumn crocus
  
Avodaco
 
Any kind – Too high in fat.
Baked goods (cakes, cookies)
  
Beans
 
Any kind – causes gas/bloating.
Bishop’s Weed (Ammi majus)
 
May contain toxic levels of nitrates.
Black locust
  
Buttercup
  
Caladium
  
Caster oil plants (castor bean, palma)
  
Cherry trees (wild and cultivated)
  
Chiles
  
Christmas pepper
  
Clematis (virgin’s bower)
  
Coconut
 
Any kind – Too high in fat.
Coffee, soda
 
High in sugar, caffeine.
Cycads
  
Daffodil (narcissus, jonquil)
  
Dairy products
  
Daphne
  
Delphinum (larkspur, staggerweed)
  
Dicerna (bleeding heart, dutchman’s breeches, squirrel corn, turkey corn)
  
Diffenbachia (dumb cane)
  
Elderberry
  
Elephant ear
  
English ivy
  
Euphorbia (annual poinsettia, mexican fire plant, fire-on-the-mountain, snow-on-the-mountain)
  
Four-o’clock
  
Foxglove
  
Garland flower
  
Garlic
 
Poinsonous.
Glory lily (climbing lily, gloriosa)
  
Golden chain
  
Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria)
 See Bishop’s Weed
Ground Elder (Aegopodium podagraria)
 See Bishop’s Weed
Gyacinth
  
Hydrangea
  
Holly
  
Horseradish
 
Too pungent.
Hot herbs and spices
  
Lettuce – Iceberg
 
Low nutrition, high water content.
Iris
  
Indian spurge tree (pencil tree, malabartree, pencil cactus, monkey fiddle)
  
Jack-in-the-pulpit
  
Jerusalem cherry
  
Jams, jellies, fruit preservatives
 
High sugar content.
Jasmine
  
Juice
 
High sugar content.
Lantana camera (red sage)
  
Laurels
  
Lilac
  
Lily-of-the-valley
  
Marsh marigold (cowslip)
  
Matrimony vine
  
Mayapple
  
Meadow saffron
  
Meat
  
Mistletoe
  
Monkshood
  
Mountain laurel
  
Mushrooms (amanita muscaria&amanita phalloides)
 
Poinsonous.
Nightshade
  
Nuts
 
Any kind – too high in fat.
Oaks
  
Oleander
  
Olives (canned)
 
Pickled or brined vegetables are
NOT safe for guinea pigs
Paprikas
  
Peppers – hot and chiles
  
Philodendron
  
Phytolacca (poke weed, poke berry, ink berry)
  
Pickled vegetables (dill, pickles, capers, sauer kraut)
  
Pine needles
  
Poinciana (bird-of-paradise)
  
Poison hemlock
  
Potato and potato tops (leaves)
  
Pothos
  
Potatoes
 
Poisonous if green or sprouted. Yams and sweet potatoes are OK in moderation.
Privet
  
Pyracantha (firethorn)
  
Raw beans
  
Rhododendron (laurels, rose bay, azalea)
  
Rhubarb
 
Poinsonous.
Rosary pea
  
Seeds
 
Choking hazard.
Snowdrop
  
Snow-in-the-mountain (Aegopodium podagraria)
 See Bishop’s Weed
Soda, soda pop
 
High in sugar, caffeine.
Spring adonis (pheasant’s eye)
  
Star-of-bethlehem
  
Strelitzia (bird-of-paradise)
  
Sweet pea
  
Taro
 
Dangerous of eaten unprepared or raw.
Tea
  
Tomatillo – leaves and stalk
 
Poisonous.
Tomato – leaves and stalk
 
Poinsonous.
Trumpet flower (chalice vine)
  
Water hemlock
  
Wisteria
  
Yellow oleander (lucky nut, tiger apple, be-still-tree)
  
Yew
  
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