GOOD WOOD -- BAD WOOD

There are a lot of questions being asked about what type of wood is safe for our companion birds.  Perhaps this will help answer some of the questions.

Bad wood - left colum ALDER - red alder -see Alder Buckthorn paragraph 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 BRACKEN FERN BURDOCK CACAO CAMEL BUSH - Trichodesma CANARY BIRD BUSH - Crotalaria CANNABIS CASTOR BEANbusybirdtoys@charter.net CEDAR - Thuja, Chamaecyparis, Cupressus CHALICE - trumpet vine CHERRY see comments below CHINA BERRY TREE - Melia / Texas umbrella tree CHINESE MAGNOLIA - uncertain for safety CHINESE POPCORN / TALLOW CHINESE SNAKE TREE - Laquer plant 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 - Digitalis (pharmaceutical source) GOLDEN CHAIN TREE - Laburnum GROUND CHERRY CROWN OF THORNS HEATHS HEMLOCK - Tsuga HOLLY - Ilex HONEY LOCUST - Gleditsia HORSE CHESTNUT - Aesculus HUCKLEBERRY - leaves bad: evergreen & 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 - Philadelphus MONSTERA - big hunker of a house plant MOUNTAIN LAUREL - Kalmia latifolia MYRTLE - broadleaf evergreen, not crape myrtle NECTARINE NUTMEG OAK - Quercus - all parts / tannins MISTLETOE OLEANDER PEACH PEAR - some sources lean toward safe PENCILTREE PITCH PINE PLUM PRARIE OAK - safety uncertain PRIVET RAIN TREE RED MAPLE - see Maple paragraph RED SAGE - Lantana REDWOOD - Sequiadendron, Metasequoia, Sequoia RHODODENDRON RHUBARB SAND BOX TREE - sap was used to poison fish SOLANUM - Jerusalem cherry or pepino SOPHORA - includes Japanese pagoda tree SUMAC - not all sumacs are bad: see paragraphs TOBACCO TANSY TOMATO UMBRELLA TREE WALNUT WEEPING FIG - Ficus benjamina > Ficus elastica safe WHITE CEDAR - China WITCH HAZEL - Hamamelis WISTERIA YEW - Taxus

Safe wood - right column ACACIA - Silk Tree would be in this group APPLE - (Insecticide residue likely cause for periodic issues) AILANTHUS - Tree of Heaven ALDER - white alder - (See paragraph about Alder / Buckthorn) ALMOND ARALIA - Fatsia japonica ASH - Fraxinus ASPEN - Populus BAMBOO BARBERRY- Berberis BIRCH - see paragraph BEECH - Fagus BOIS D'ARC - horse apple tree BOTTLE BRUSH BUTTERFLY BUSH CAMELLIA CITRUS - (lime, kumquat, grapefruit, orange, lemon) CORK - (not wood from cork oak, but cork) CORN PLANTS COTTONWOOD - Populus CRABAPPLE - Malus CRAPE MYRTLE - (not the same as myrtle) DATE DOGWOOD - Cornus DOUGLAS FIR - Pseudotsuga DRACAENA ELM - Ulmus ESCALLONIA EUCALYPTUS FIG FIR - genus Abies GINKGO GRAPE VINES GRAPE PALM GUAVA HACKBERRY HAWTHORN - Crataegus HIBISCUS HICKORY IRONWOOD - apparently toxic leaves JADE PLANT KALANCHOE LARCH - Larix LILAC - Syringa MADRONA / MADRONE - Arbutus MAGNOLIA MAPLE - Acer - see Maple Paragraph MANZANITA - Arctostaphylos MESQUITE - remove sharp parts MIMOSA MOUNTAIN ASH - Sorbus MULBERRY - Morus NANDINA -common name is heavenly bamboo NORFOLK ISLAND PINE - Araucaria NUT TREES - exclude chestnut ORANGE - several sources lean toward safe OREGON GRAPE - Mahonia PALM PAPAYA PEAR PECAN PINE - Pinus: see Pine paragraph below PHOTINIA see Photinia paragraph below POPLAR - Populus PUSSY WILLOW - Salix RAPHIOLEPSIS - Indian Hawthorn RIBBONWOOD ROSE - Rosa RUBBER PLANT - Ficus elastica - Weeping Fig in bad column RUSSIAN OLIVE SASSAFRAS SILK TREE SPIRAEA SPRUCE - Picea STAGHORN SUMAC - see Sumac paragraph STRAWBERRY TREE - Arbutus like Madrone SWEET GUM SYCAMORE THURLOW TREE FERN VIBURNUM VINE MAPLE - Acer WEEPING WILLOW - Salix - see Willow paragraph WIEGELA YUCCA