gardeners.?

Question

Are the leaves of a sweet Kumquat poisonus to animals especailly cats? are ANY fruit tree leaves poison to cat's?
I want to keep my fruit trees inside during winter, but have three cats

well sassy! for starters I'm NOT silly. I have researched this topic and can't find any answers. I checked ourt the web site you mentioned and it does NBOT say anything about citrus fruit. so you were no help. silly!

well sassy! for starters I'm NOT silly. I have researched this topic and can't find any answers. I checked ourt the web site you mentioned and it does NOT say anything about citrus fruit. so you were no help. silly!

Sptfr. thanks for the web site don't know howq I missed that one. you get the points. Ye River. your answer was very informative. but sptfr solved the problem. thanks to both of you

Answer 1

After an hour of searching I came across this site with the only list that includes Kumquat as a toxic tree. It's probably not deadly, but it would most likely make your kitty ill. Hope this helps.
http://parrotrus.tripod.com/id14.html

Answer 2

Citrus leaves are chemically all about the same. We have a veritable orchard of citrus trees. We also have a veritable animal shelter in our back yard, and have never found any dead cats in our yard, so I suspect that if the leaves are poisonous, the cats are smart enough not to eat them.

If you're still worried, you could make a little fence of chicken wire to keep the cats off your trees. I suspect this will mostly be of use to keep them from pooping in the pots though.

Answer 3

check this link,
http://www.sniksnak.com/plants-toxic.html
and google it, silly