Melissa Kaplan's
Herp Care Collection
Last updated January 1, 2014

Harmful & Toxic Plants

These plants are in addition to those found in Susan Barnard's Harmful & Poisonous Plants listing.

Compiled by Melissa Kaplan

The following plants have been found on other toxic plant lists or I have found them referred to in various types of literature. I myself will not permit my herbivores to eat them.

BOUGAINVILLEA glabra ^1.

CAPSICUM spp. Peppers, Sweet Peppers, Bell Peppers. Leaves contain solamin and atropine.

CHRYSANTHEMUM. These are the plants from which the pesticide pyrethrin is extracted.

CRASSULA ARGENTEA Jade Plant. Mildly toxic; dermatitis from sap¹.

JADE PLANT Crassula argentea. Mildly toxic; dermatitis from sap¹.

RUBBER PLANT Ficus elastica. Dermatitis from sap¹.

FICUS ELASTICA Rubber plant. Dermatitis from sap¹.

Source

1. University of California, Davis