What type of plant is this and is it safe for budgies? If anyone knows that would be great....

I know the budgies would love chewing it to pieces, so I need to know if they can. If someone knows please reply soon.

I take it no one knows?

i dont know what plant it is and i wouldn't give it to budgies just in case its toxic.

Sorry, don't know.

wow, haven't seen this before, just incase don't give it to him.

try some grevelia or bottlebrush.

Suggest you take these pictures or a branch to a plant nursery to properly identify it

Suggest you take these pictures or a branch to a plant nursery to properly identify it

 

 

Good idea... or they be a plant forum somewhere where you could post it?

I have been wanting to know for ages what that plant is. It is so pretty, I have been wanting to get one, whether or not it is good for budgies. Hope someone does know.

First look it looks like a Hakea but I can't confirm that cause I don't have time to hunt down the info. If it is a Hakea it is safe.

http://asgap.org.au/question.html

I've posted in that forum actually, DrNat, last Friday. They still haven't replied, so I'm still waiting... RIPBudgies, I don't think it is a Hakea..I googled it and all the pictures look similar to this plant, but definetely not it. Thanks anyway.

I Google imaged it for ages last night and could not find it under Hakeas. The blossom on some Hakeas did look similar but those little buds, which look like raspberries, are a distinctive feature and I did not see them.

Suggest you take these pictures or a branch to a plant nursery to properly identify it

hope you find the answer soon!

Okay it appears to be a "Calliandra haematocephala", or Red Powder puff plant. Native to South America apparently.

They say the native birds and butterflies etc in Australia like it..No idea if it is safe for budgies, though now I know what it is.

you have a half answer then?

Yup, I know what it is, now I just need to find out somehow whether budgies can eat it.

I can't get your picture to come up again. I'd really like to have another look at it. I did not forget your question. Today I met a lady who gives calliandra haematocephala (also called 'puff ball' tree) to her cockatiels. It is growing in her garden. All her cockatiels are alive and well. I saw them and the tree. I googled the tree to be sure of the correct name.

HOWEVER, I do not think your plant is quite the same. The buds in your picture were forming in different groupings from the way they grow on the puff ball tree, which I have often seen. I have only seen a shrub like your photo once and did know what it was.

I was, therefore, particularly interested in your post. The puff ball tree is not native to Australia, apparently.

 

 

PS Your picture has now come up. I correct myself. It is the puff ball tree. Cockatiels eat it, so it would be okay for budgies.

Edited July 15, 200915 yr by Catherine

Okay thank you very much. I'll start giving it to the budgies then.

Okay it appears to be a "Calliandra haematocephala", or Red Powder puff plant. Native to South America apparently.

They say the native birds and butterflies etc in Australia like it..No idea if it is safe for budgies, though now I know what it is.

Isnt a budgie a native australian bird ?