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gloxinia, another flowering houseplant. Baby’s tears, a small, delicate-looking plant with yellow leaves and tiny white flowers, is also non-toxic for cats. Safe Houseplants for Your Cat Other choices include the friendship plant or pilea involucrata , with textured, deeply veined leaves and metallic coloration, or the asparagus fern, which is actually not a fern at all but a sprawling shrub with feathery, fernlike leaves. If you prefer a taller potted plant, consider the money tree or pachira aquatica . With its multiple intertwined woody stems and broad green leaves, the money tree symbolizes luck and good fortune. It supposedly got its name after a poor man prayed for money, found the pachira aquatica , took it home and began making money by selling its seeds. Another tall, showy, feline-friendly option is a banana leaf plant.
The long list of toxic houseplants
to cats leaves many pet lovers wondering whether plants are
safe for felines.
Fortunately, some of the most popular indoor greenery is safe for cats. Your kitty can thrive among the broad, bright green fronds of a Boston fern, for example, or a
spider ivy or ribbon plant, with its narrow, strap-shaped green or variegated leaves. Another feline-friendly favorite is the prayer plant, a tropical variety with beautiful decorative oval leaves. Among safe flowering houseplants is the Christmas cactus, also known as the Easter cactus or Thanksgiving cactus, has shiny green leaves and gorgeous blossoms that sprout around the same season each year. Also safe for cats is Swedish ivy, which has glossy green leaves with scalloped edges and sometimes sprouts white or light purple flowers.
If you crave exotica, consider a Venus flytrap, a surprisingly low- maintenance houseplant. Their pest-trapping ability makes them good company in the home, and fortunately, they don’t prey on cats. Oddly enough, some of the plants most toxic to humans are perfectly safe for their feline friends. Care to bring a bit of potted poison ivy or poison oak into your home? Your kitty won’t mind.
Plants with smaller, more delicate blossoms include the African violet, a velvet-leafed houseplant with beautiful, showy flowers, or its relative, the
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