The Iguana Den
 

 

 

 

 

Toxic Plants

How dangerous some of these plants are sometimes depends on how much is consumed but....some can also cause DEATH or SERIOUS illness in your iguanas. Why take any chances?
They should be avoided just to be safe.

 

A

  • Air plant
  • Amanita
  • Amaryllis
  • Andromeda
  • Arum lily
  • Autumn crocus or meadow saffron
  • Australian flame tree
  • Avocado
  • Azalea

B

  • Balsam pear
  • Baneberry
  • Beans: castor, horse, fava, broad, glory, scarlet runner, mescal, rosary peas, precatory, navy
  • Bird of paradise
  • Bishop's weed
  • Black laurel
  • Black locust
  • Bleeding heart or Dutchman's breeches
  • bloodroot
  • Bluebonnet
  • Blue-green algae (some forms toxic)
  • Boxwood
  • Bracken fern
  • Broomcorn grass
  • Buckeye
  • Buckthorn
  • Bulb flowers
  • Burdock
  • Buttercup

C

  • Cacao
  • Camel bush
  • Castor bean (castor oil)
  • Caladium
  • Calla lily
  • Candelabra tree
  • Cardinal flower
  • Castor Bean
  • Chalice (trumpet vine)
  • Cherry tree
  • Chinaberry tree
  • Christmas candle
  • Clematis (Virginia bower)
  • Cocklebur
  • Coffee (senna)
  • Coffee bean (rattlebush, rattlebox, coffeeweek)
  • Coral plant
  • Coriander
  • Corncockle
  • Cotton bush
  • Coyotillo
  • Cowslip
  • Crown of thorns
  • Cutleaf

D

  • Daffodil
  • Daphne
  • Datura
  • Deadly amanita
  • Death camus
  • Delphinium
  • Devil's ivy
  • Dieffenbachia (dumb cane)
  • Dutchman's breeches

E

  • Eggplant
  • Elderberry
  • Elephant ear (taro)
  • English Ivy
  • Ergot
  • Eucalyptus (particularly dried, dyed or treated for floral arrangements)
  • Euonymus (spindle tree)

F

  • False hellebore
  • False henbane
  • Flame tree
  • Felt plant (maternity plant, air plant, panda plant)
  • Firethorn
  • Fiscus (weeping)
  • Four O'Clock
  • Foxglove

G

  • Ghostweed
  • Glottidium
  • Golden chain
  • Grass; Johnson, sorghum, sudan, broomcorn
  • Ground cherry

H

  • Heaths: kalmia, leucotho, peires, rhododendron, mountain laurel, black laurel, andromeda, azaleas
  • Heliotrope
  • Hemlock: poison, water
  • Henbane
  • Holly
  • Honeysuckle
  • Horse bean
  • Horse chestnut (buckeye)
  • Horsetail
  • Hyacinth
  • Hydrangea

I

  • Indian turnip (Jack-in-the-pulpit)
  • Iris (blue flag)
  • Ivy: English, other varieties

J

  • Jack-in-the-pulpit (Ind. turnip)
  • Java bean (lima bean)
  • Jasmine (jessamine)
  • Jerusalem cherry
  • Jimsonweed (thornapple)
  • Johnson grass
  • Juniper (J. virginiana)

K

  • Kalmia (heath)
  • Kentucky coffee tree

L

  • Lantana
  • Larkspur
  • Laurel
  • Leucotho (heath)
  • Lily of the valley
  • Lily, arum
  • Lima bean
  • Lobelia
  • Locoweed (milk vetch)
  • Lords and ladies (cuckoopint)
  • Lupine

M

  • Malanga
  • Mandrake
  • Marijuana (hemp)
  • Maternity plant
  • Mayapple (mandrake)
  • Meadow saffron
  • Mescal bean
  • Mexican breadfruit
  • Mexican poppy
  • Milk vetch
  • Milkweed (cotton bush)
  • Mistletoe
  • Mock orange
  • Monkshood
  • Moonseed
  • Morning glory
  • Mountain laurel
  • Mushrooms (amanita)

N

  • Narcissus
  • Navy bean
  • Nettles
  • Nightshades: (all types) deadly, black, garden, woody, bittersweet, eggplant, Jerusalem cherry

O

  • Oak
  • Oleander

P

  • Panda plant
  • Peires
  • Pencil tree
  • Periwinkle
  • Philodendrons: split leaf, Swiss cheese
  • Pigweed
  • Pikeweed
  • Poinciana
  • Poinsettia
  • Poison Ivy
  • Poison Oak: western, eastern
  • Pokeweed
  • Potatoe shoots (& skin)
  • Precatory (bean)
  • Privet
  • Pyracantha

R

  • Rain tree
  • Ranunculus (buttercup)
  • Rape
  • Rattlebox (crotalaria)
  • Rattlebush
  • Red maple
  • Rhubarb (and leaves)
  • Rhododendrons (azaleas, laurels)
  • Rosary peas

S

  • Sandbox tree
  • Scarlet runner
  • Skunk cabbage
  • Sorghum grass
  • Sorrel (dock)
  • Spindle tree
  • Snowdrop
  • Snow on the mountain (ghostweed)
  • Spurges: pencil tree, snow-on-the-mountain, candelabra tree, crown of thorns
  • Sudan grass
  • Sweet pea

T

  • Tansy ragwort
  • Tabacco
  • Thornapple

V

  • Vetch: hairy and common
  • Virginia bower
  • Virginia creeper

W

  • Wattle
  • White cedar (China berry)
  • Wisteria

Y

  • Yam bean
  • Yews (American, English, Japanese)
  • Yellow jasmine
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