Is Hyacinth safe for bunnies?

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- 01/17/2016 at 12:29 PM
  Clo
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  Just wondering because I’ve read a lot that it isn’t but then the Rosewood chil’n’chew mats are made out of it so just wanted to check
  
  Thanks in advance
- 01/17/2016 at 6:17 PM
  LittlePuffyTail
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  Hyacinth is listed in the House Rabbit Society List of Poisonous Plants so definitely stay away from it.
- 01/18/2016 at 12:48 AM
  Bam
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  I looked up the mat, it’s made of water-hyacinth, I looked that up and it seems poisonous to virtually all animals so I don’t understand whay they’d make a chew mat out of it.
  
  https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants/water-hyacinth
  
  There are seaweed mats that aren’t poisonous, and I think Oxbow has hay mats as well. Those type of materials are bunny safe.
- 01/30/2016 at 8:51 AM
  Mimsy
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  As a guess people confuse water hyacinth with the bulb flower hyacinth. The bulb hyacinth is poisonous. Water hyacinth is used as food in some areas of the world. It reaches maturity quickly and spreads, this makes a good vegetable for people and animals in areas that are limited with what they can grow.
  
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22933551
  http://www.apms.org/japm/vol29/v29p32.pdf
  
  It’s interesting that the aspca have it on their list as poisonous. Hopefully they always err on the side of caution, hate to see them mistake a toxic one for a safe one, I’ve looked up things using their list myself.
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