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Toxic and Non Tox Plants Shrubs Trees

Almost every bird enjoys chewing on the bark of a fresh tree branch. Avian vets often recommend such chewing activity as important occupational therapy.  

A couple of the most commonly asked questions Jo has are 

1. Which  plants and branches are harmful and which are safe

2.  Substances  toxic to our birds. 

 

Weather it be house plants, garden plants, fruit trees, wood branches, berries, seeds, etc. that our birds come into contact with, we need to be aware of which is safe and which is toxic.  While one part of the plant/tree/bush  may be safe, another part, be it a stem, leaf, fruit, etc.  may be toxic, which is why you may see plants listed on both lists here.  Whenever in doubt PLEASE AIR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION. 

Please remember any wood used for perches and toys has to be pesticide and chemical free.  Scrub well with disinfectant, rinse and dry in the sun or on low setting in the oven to kill any molds or bugs.  If you collect scraps of woods from lumberyards for toy making, be sure it has not been treated with any preservatives.

 

 

Safe Plants
  • Acacia
  • African Violets
  • Africian Daisy
  • Alyssum
  • Aluminum Plant
  • Aloe   
  • Areca / Butterfly Cane 
  • Asparagus Fern
  •  Australian Umbrella Tree 
  • Baby's Tears 
  • Bachelor's Buttons
  • Ballon Flower
  • Bamboo 
  • Bee Balm
  • Begonia 
  • Bird Nest Fern 
  • Bird of Paradise
  • Black-eyed Susan Vine
  • Blue Marquerite
  • Bottle Palm 
  • Boston Fern
  • Bougainvillea 
  • Bromeliads
  • Bush Cherry
  • Butterfly Bush
  • Cactus (Mostly non toxic except for pencil cactus, peyote/mescaline, candelabra cactus)
  • Calendula
  • Camellia 
  • Canna Lily
  • Carpet Bugle
  • Chamomile
  • Chicory
  • Chickweed 
  • China Doll
  • China Aster
  • Christmas Cactus
  • Cissus / Kangaroo Vines
  • Coffee Tree
  • Coleus
  • Comfreyy 
  • Coral Bells
  • Corcus (Spring Blooming)
  • Corn Plant 
  • Cosmos
  • Crabapple 
  • Crap Myrtle
  • Creeping Charlie
  • Dahlia
  • Dandelion 
  • Day Lilly
  • Dogwood
  • Donkey Tail / Burro's Tail
  • Dracaena Varieties
  • Dragon Tree
  • Easter Cactus 
  • Gold Dust Dracaena
  • Elephant Foot Tree 
  • Ferns:
      Asparagus (Not A True Fern)

      Bird Nest Fern
      Boston Fern
      Brake
      Ribbon
      Dish
      Button
      Motherfern
      Maidenhair
      Sword
      Squirrel's Foot
      Deer's Foot
      Fiji
      Polypody
      Ball
      Staghorn
      Elk's Horn
  • Figs
  • .creeping
  • .rubber
  • .fiddle leaf
  • Figs
  • .laurel leaf
  • Gardenia
  • Gold Dust 
  • Grape Hyacinth
  • Grape Ivy 
  • Hawthorn
  • Honey Locust
  • Hen and Chickens
  • Hibiscus
  • 
     
  • Huckleberry
  • Impatiens
  • India Hawthorn
  • Jade Plant
  • Kalanchoe 
  • Larch
  • Lipstick Plant
  • Lilac
  • Madagascar Dragon
  • Madagascar Jasime
  • Madagascar Lace Plant
  • Madrona
  • Magnolia
  • Mango (fruit)
  • Marigold
  • Maternity Plant
  • Monkey Plant
  • Moon Magic
  • Motherof Pearls
  • Mother-In-Laws Tongue
  • Mountain Ash
  • Nasturtium 
  • Natal Plum 
  • Nectarine
  • Nerve Plant 
  • Norfolk Island Pine 
  • Orchids 
  • Oregano
  • Painted Needle
  • Palms:
                                              Areca Bamboo
                                              Bottle
                                              Fern Date
                                              European Fan
                                              Fan
                                              Fishtail
                                              Howeia
                                              Kentia
                                              Lady
                                              Parlour
                                              Phoenix / Date Palm
                                              Pony Tail Palm (Not A True Palm)
                                              Pygmy Date
                                              Rhapis
                                              Roebelin
                                              Sago (Not a true palm)
                                              Sentry Palm 
  • Pansies (Purple, white & yellow bi-color blooms are safe) 
  • Parsley
  • Papaya
  • Passion Flower Vine
  • Peacock Plant 
  • Peppermint
  • Peperomia 
  • Petunia 
  • Pilea
  • Piggyback Plant
  • Piggyback begonia
  • Pittosporum
  • Pink Polka Dot Plant
  • Polygonum Baldschuanicum
  • Pony Tail Palm (Not A Palm) 
  • Prayer Plant 
  • Prune
  • Purple Passion / Purple Nettle 
  • Purple Tiger
  • Pyracantha (Ripe Berries Only) 
  • Raspberry
  • Red-Margined Dracaena 
  • Rose 
  • Rubber Plant 
  • Rubus Odoratus
  • Russian Vine
  • Sago Palm (Not a True Palm)
  • Sassafras
  • Schefflera (Umbrella) 
  • Sedum
  • Sensitive Plant
  • Snake Plant 
  • Spider Plant / Airplane Plant 
  • Snowberry
  • Swedish Ivy
  • Tahitian Bridal Veil 
  • Thanksgiving Cactus 
  • Thistle 
  • Thurlow
  • Thyme
  • Ti Plant
  • Toyon Tree / California 
  • Wandering Jew 
  • Wax Plant 
  • White Clover 
  • Velvet Plant / Purple Passion 
  • Yucca 
  • Zebra Plant 
  • Zinnia 

Safe Woods


  • Apple
  • Arbutus
  • Ash
  • Aspen
  • Birch
  • Beech
  • Citrus (any)
  • Cottonwood
  • Crabapple
  • Dogwood
  • Elm
  • Eucalyptus
  • Fir (balsam, douglas, sub-apline,white)
  • Guava
  • Hawthorn
  • Kiln dried Pine Larch
  • Madrona
  • Magnolia
  • Manzanita
  • Norfolk Island Pine
  • Maple
  • Nut (except chestnut & oak) 
  • Oak (clean and disinfect thoroughly)
  • Papaya
  • Palms (areca, date, fan, lady, parlour)
  • Palms (howeia, kentia, phoenix, sago)
  • Pear
  • Pine
  • Poplar
  • Prune
  • Ribbonwood
  • Sassafras
  • Sequoia (redwood)
  • Thurlow
  • Vine Maple
  • Willows:
      Goat  
      Weeping

  • Dangerous Plants / Toxic / Poison

  • Aconite (all parts)
  • African Boxwood
  • Agapanthus (sap)
  • Agave
  • Alacia
  • Amaryllis (bulbs)
  • American Yew (nedles, seed)
  • Anthurium
  • Apricot (pits)
  • Aralia
  • Arborvitae
  • Arrowhead Vine (leaves)
  • Arum Lily  (all parts)
  • Autumn Crocus / Meadow Saffron  (all parts)
  • Australian Flametree
  • Avocado
  • Azalea (leaves)
  • Balsam Pear (seeds,outer rind of fruit)
    Baneberry (berries, roots)
  • Beans: (all types if uncooked)
      Castor
      Horse
      Fava
      Broad
      Glory
      Scarlet Runner
      Mescal
      Navy
      Pregatory
  • Birch
  • Bird of Paradise (seed)
  • Bishop's Weed
  • Bittersweet Nightshade
  • Black Laurel
  • Black Locust (bark, sprouts, foliage)
  • Bleeding Heart / Dutchman's Breeches
  • Bloodroot
  • Bluebonnet
  • Bluegreen Algae (some forms toxic)
  • Boxwood (leaves, stems)
  • Bracken Fern
  • Broomcorn Grass
  • Buckthorn (fruit, bark)
  • Bulb Flowers:
      Amaryllis Daffodil
      Narcissus
      Hyacinth
      Iris
  • Burdock
  • Buttercup (sap, bulbs)
  • Bushman's poison
  • Cacao
  • Cactus (pencil, peyote/mescaline,candelabra)
  • Camel Bush
  • Castor Bean (beans, leaves)
  • Caladium (leaves)
  • Calla Lily (leaves)
  • Cana Lily
  • Candelabra Tree
  • Carnation
  • Cardinal Flower
  • Century Plant
  • Chalice Vine / Trumpet Vine
  •  Challce Vine (all parts)
  • Cherry Tree (bark, twigs, leaves, pits)
  • China Berry Tree
  • Chinese Evergreen
  • Chinese Lantern
  • Chokecherry
  • Christmas Candle (sap)
  • Chrysanthemum
  • Clematis / Virginia Bower (all parts)
  • Clivia
  • Cocklebur
  • Coffee (Senna)
  • Coffee Bean / Rattlebush / Rattlebox & Coffeeweed
  • Columbine
  • Common Burdock
  • Copperleaf
  • Coral Plant (seeds)
  • Coriander
  • Corncockle
  • Cotoneaster
  •  Coyotillo
  • Cowslip / Marsh Marigold  (all parts)
  • Crape Myrtle
  • Crinum Lily
  • Crown of Thorns (sap)
  • Croton (sap)
  • Cyclamen
  •  Cut leaf Philodendron
  • Daffodil (bulbs)
  • Daphne (berries)
  • Datura Stramoniun / Angel's Trumpet (berries)
  • Deadly Amanita (all parts)
  • Death Camus (all parts)
  • Delphinium (all parts)
  • Devil's Ivy
  • Dieffenbachia / Dumb Cane (leaves)
  • Dumb Cane
  • Dusty Miller
  • Easter Lily
  • Echium
  • Eggplant (Only fruit is safe)
  • Elderberry
  • Elephant Ear / Taro (leaves, stem)
  • English Ivy (berries, leaves)
  • English Laurel
  • Ergot
  • Eucalyptus
  • Euonymus / Spindle Tree  (all parts)
  • Euphorbia Cactus
  • False Henbane (all parts)
  • Flame Tree
  • Felt Plant / Maternity / Air & Panda Plants
  • Figs: (if much is eaten these plants can make a bird ill)
      Creeping
      Edible
      Fiddleleaf Fig
      Laurel Leaf
      Rubber Plant
      Weeping
  • Firethorn / Pyracantha
  • Fishtail Palm
  • Flamingo Flower (leaves, stem)
  • Fly Agaric Mushroom / Deadly Amanita
  • Four O'Clock
  • Foxglove (leaves, seeds)
  • Foxtail Barley
  • Gladiolus
  • Glory Lily
  • Glory Bean
  • Glottidium
  • Golden Chain / Laburnum (all parts, especially seeds)
  • Gopher Plant
  • Grasses:
      Johnson
      Sorghum
      Sudan
      Broom Corn
  • Ground Cherry
  • Ground Ivy
  • Heather
  • Heaths:
      Kalmia
      Leucotho
      Peires
      Rhododenron
      Mountain Laurel
      Black Laurel
      Andromeda
      Azalea
  • Heliotrope
  • Hellebore
  • Hemlock (Poison in plant & water)
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