Flowers For Your Lorikeet

By Kellie Stewart

Safe Flowers:

Lorikeets love to eat flowers to obtain the pollen, and all so just to have the pleasure of ripping something in to pieces. We had a discussion at the last chat group meeting on what flowers are safe to give. This is what we came up with. Wattle, tea-tree, marigolds, roses petals and hips, bottle brush, hibiscus, bankcia, linseed, sunflowers, fuscia and dandilion, including the leaves. Dandilion is a good liver tonic and is high in heaps of goodies, it is a great food to give and the lorikeets go mad on it when they have young in the nest.

Toxic Flowers:

Azalea-belladoona-bird of paradise-chrysanthemums-daffodil-delpinium-foxglove-geranium-hemlock-holly-hyacinth-hydrangia-
Iris-ivy-lobelia-marijuana-morning glory-
narcissus-nightshade-pointettia-privet-
rhododendron-snowdrop-string of pearls-sweet-pea-wisteria

Note from Webmaster:

The list above is by no means exhaustive, the only safe philosophy to use is that if you are unsure of the flower, don't feed it to your lorikeet.

A red-collar making a feast out of a flower.

Last modified: 18 December 2001.