Any houseplant toxicity experts out there?

[brewso.livejournal.com]

My baby girl has finally noticed the previously-invisible houseplants, and now we need to determine whether they're safe or not. We need help identifying 5 potted houseplants that we have, either via email photos or in person. I know there is info. online, but I'm having a hard time figuring out where to start looking since I don't know any of the names. We'd be happy to give someone $15 or a bottle of wine or something if they'd be willing to help out.

Thanks!

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without seeing your plants, i can offer that

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

i know that two common houseplants are either philodendrons or spider plants, so you could do a google search on either of those to see if you have those types...

these links might help also

http://people.uwec.edu/piercech/plants/

http://lancaster.unl.edu/factsheets/031.htm

Re: without seeing your plants, i can offer that

[shadows783.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about toxicity, but it's also worth noting that Philodendron and Pothos are often mistaken for one another. (And yes, they're both common houseplants.)

Good luck!

Re: without seeing your plants, i can offer that

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

oh, yes, good call.... i had what i thought was a philo forever, and turned out it was a pothos (I couldn't remember that name, though).

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

Any chance you could post photos here? Then you could get a dozen conflicting answers for each one!

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

The gardening community will do plant ID if you post pictures (behind a cut tag), but yes, you may get conflicting answers :/ Which might at least help you narrow things down.

[logt.livejournal.com]

If the plants are not humongous, you might want to take them to one of the plant nurseries to ID. The one I can think of with experienced stuff is

MAHONEY'S BRIGHTON
449 Western Avenue
Brighton, MA 02135
617-787-8885
Hours
Monday-Saturday 9am-7pm
Sunday 9am-6pm

Good luck!

[dahdahdahdancer.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the Somerville Garden Club folks could give you some advice.

[zenala.livejournal.com]

I know that spider plants and Swedish ivy are both safe for cats, so there's a good chance they're also safe for children.

Focus on the _poison_ rather than the plant..

[anu3bis.livejournal.com]

Call a Poison Control Center.

http://www.aapcc.org/DNN/

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I'd ping the somerville garden club (http://www.somervillegardenclub.org/). There are some incredibly knowledgeable people there.