Indoors
Peace lily
Spathiphyllum
- Cat: toxic
- Dog: toxic
- Light: half shade
About the plant
The peace lily comes from the humid forests of tropical America. Its white "flower" is really a leaf-like spathe around a spike of tiny flowers. When it needs water it clearly droops, and it lifts its leaves again soon after watering.
Peace lily and pets
- Cat
- toxic
- Dog
- toxic
- Signs
- calcium oxalates: burning and irritation of the mouth, lips and tongue, drooling, vomiting, difficulty swallowing
If a cat or a dog ate this plant and shows signs, contact a vet straight away.
Instead: safe for cats and dogs
Care
- Watering
- about every 6 days in summer (April to September), every 10 in winter
- Light
- half shade
- Air humidity
- high
- Temperature
- 16–28 °C
- Feeding
- March to September, every 3 weeks
- Repotting
- every 2 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
It shows when it is thirsty: the leaves droop and rise again within hours of watering. Not a true lily, so no harm to cat kidneys.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.