Plant Identification

[Amandasmom]

Can anyone identify this plant? Amanda has been sick. Not eating, loosing weight. I'm wondering if this plant made her sick. The vet mentioned she found a lot of plant material in her stool sample. I noticed today that this plant was pretty beat up.

[Tambrey]

Houseplants are not my forte, but I did forward the link to my mom and brother, both know alot about houseplants...
it does look like something in the sedum family...but there are LOTS of sedums...

Can you take a sample to a local nursery for identification?

[Amandasmom]

I think it's a Chinese Sedum. I haven't found any information saying they are toxic. Maybe Amanda just started eating the plant when she wasn't feeling well.

[E's]

This looks to me like kalanchoe that has stopped blooming and begun to vine out because of the planter it's in... I certainly could be wrong, but if it is kalanchoe, I've had it around, outdoors and indoors, for years and never heard of it being toxic.

When my dog is feeling poorly she will nibble green plants to make herself regurgitate - she has done this all her life from time to time - it seems to be some instinctive thing. Her favorite at such times is leaves of elder bush, which grow as weeds because we put river sand in the yard years ago; but if those have been trimmed out, she will try to get to something else... Used to drive me crazy about the elder leaves (elder berries are truly poison but the leaves aren't.) It never seemed to hurt her so now I leave some sprigs of it for those times she goes "off her feed" because some of the other greenery in my jungle yard may BE poison!

If the urpiness was only from eating something she shouldn't have, as it usually is, Win is over it quickly... But if this behavior reoccurs later in the day or on the next day, it means open the canned pumpkin and/or set up a regimen of Hill's prescription W/D [which is now nearly forty bucks a case, ugh ]

I hope Amanda is all right now! Please let us know.

[Traci]

Kalanchoe is listed in the NAPCC's poisonous plants database. Not sure, but don't think the sedum is toxic, but any plant ingested in large amounts can cause adverse reactions (mainly vomiting, diarrhea, GI problems).

[Amandasmom]

I went to Weston Nursery, you know the one they use on "This old house". They said it was a sedum. They said to contact the vet. Well the vet can't really help unless you know the name of the plant. So they are mildly toxic. But I don't think that's the problem anymore. Amanda is starting to perk up and eat a little. Remy has stopped eating. So the vet and I are back to the drawing board. At least the cats are healthy.