Toxic Wood for Birds

​The Non-Toxic and Toxic wood list is thanks to Mario D. Vaden: M. D. Vaden - Trees & Landcapes. His main site address for his landscape company is www.mdvaden.com

ALDER - red alder - see Alder / Alder Buckthorn paragraph at Dr. Vaden's site

ANDROMEDA - (Pieris / Lily of the Valley shrub)

APRICOT

ARROWHEAD VINE

AUSTRALIAN FLAME TREE

AUSTRALIAN UMBRELLA TREE

AVACADO

AZALEA - Related to Rhododendron

BANEBERRY - Actaea

BEANS - (castor, horse, fava, broad, glory, scarlet runner)

BLACK LOCUST - Robinia

BOX ELDER

BOXWOOD - Buxus

BUCKTHORN - (Cascara / Alder Buckthorn - see chapter at Dr. Vaden's site)

BRACKEN FERN

BURDOCK

CACAO

CAMEL BUSH - Trichodesma

CANARY BIRD BUSH - Crotalaria

CANNABIS

CASTOR BEAN

CEDAR - Thuja, Chamaecyparis, Cupressus

CHALICE - trumpet vine

CHERRY (see Dr. Vaden's site)

CHINA BERRY TREE - Melia / Texas umbrella tree

CHINESE MAGNOLIA - uncertain for safety

CHINESE POPCORN (TALLOW)

CHINESE SNAKE TREE - Laquer plant: -- sap contact is bad too

COMMON SAGE

CORIANDER - Cilantro

DATURA

DAPHNE - it's the berries

DATURA STRAMONIUM - Brugmansia: - - angel's trumpet

DIEFFENBACHIA

ELDERBERRY

EUONYMUS - Includes burning bush and more

EUPHORBIA

FELT PLANT - Kalancho baharensis

FLAME TREE

FIRETHORN - Pyracantha

FLAME TREE - Brachychiton / Sterculia

FOXGLOVE

GOLDEN CHAIN TREE - Laburnum

GROUND CHERRY

CROWN OF THORNS

HEATHS

HEMLOCK - Tsuga

HOLLY - Ilex

HONEY LOCUST - Gleditsia

HORSE CHESTNUT - Aesculus

HUCKLEBERRY - leaves bad: - - both evergreen or deciduous

HYDRANGEA

JASMINE

JUNIPER - Juniperus

KALMIA: also called Mountain Laurel

KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE

LANTANA - red sage

LAUREL - Prunus

LEUCOTHOE

LUPINE

MANGO -(fruit okay: not wood or leaves)

MEXICAN BREADFRUIT

MOCK ORANGE -(fruit, see note in safe list)

MONSTERA

MOUNTAIN LAUREL

MYRTLE - is a broadleaf evergreen: Is not the same as crape myrtle

NUTMEG

OAK - Quercus - all parts / tannins

MISTLETOE

OLEANDER

ORANGE - several sources lean toward safe

PEAR - some sources lean toward safe

PENCILTREE

PITCH PINE

PRARIE OAK - safety uncertain

PRIVET

RAIN TREE

RED MAPLE - see Maple paragraph at Dr. Vaden's site

RED SAGE - Lantana

REDWOOD - - - Sequiadendron, Metasequoia, Sequoia

RHODODENDRON

RHUBARB

SAND BOX TREE - - - sap has been used to poison fish

SOLANUM - Jerusalem cherry or pepino

SOPHORA - - - includes Japanese pagoda tree & Mescal

SUMAC - - - not all sumacs are toxic: (see Dr. Vaden's site)

TOBACCO

TANSY

TOMATO - stems, vines, and leaves

UMBRELLA TREE

WEEPING FIG -(Benjamin Fig or Ficus benjamina - see Dr. Vaden's site)

WHITE CEDAR - China

WITCH HAZEL - Hamamelis

WISTERIA

YEW - Taxus

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