poisonous houseplants source please read

[rirunyan]

I have two houseplants that my kittens love to treat as a salad bar. One is a prayer plant, which is on all the safe sites that I can find. I have a draceana tree too. I found several "novice" sites with this plant listed as toxic, and decided to dig deeper into veterinary college sites, and university sites. I noticed in the novice sites, that people tend to copy and paste from other websites. This is a great way to propogate misinformation.

The following link is to a cornell university site, which links to other university sites with lists of poisonous plants. My draceana was not on any of the sites.


http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/

So many people say that poinsettias are extemely poisonous. According to all the university sites, they are considered "slightly toxic" and only cause mouth irritation.

 

[stampit3d]

Thanks for this sight rirunyan.....I used to have a ton of house plants, but when we got our first kittne last Dec I got rid of all of them not knowing what might be toxic . I`d sort of like to try to have at least a few safe ones now that both kittens are about a year old (although I`m sure they may get chomped on a bit) and I will be checking out this sight. I put it in my Favorites under my Cat Info.

 

[hissy]

Poinsettas can cause vomiting as well, if the kitty really chows down on them-