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Can Guinea Pigs Eat Evergreen Leaves?

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green. This is true even if the plant retains its foliage only in warm climates, and contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage during the winter or dry season. There are many different kinds of evergreen plants, both trees, and shrubs. Evergreens include:

  • most species of conifers (e.g., pine, hemlock, blue spruce, red cedar, and white/scots/jack pine), but not all (e.g., larch)
  • live oak, holly, and “ancient” gymnosperms such as cycads
  • most angiosperms from frost-free climates, such as eucalypts and rainforest trees
  • clubmosses and relative (source)
Can guinea pigs eat evergreen leaves?

No they can’t eat evergreen leaves as they are too toxic for guinea pigs to eat. A food to avoid feeding them.

This includes any kind of evergreen plant or tree. If they eat it, it will make them sick or even something worse.

For more foods that guinea pigs can and can’t eat, check out our guinea pig food list.