Plant recommendations?

[justjumpit621]

Picked up a beautiful little bougainville for Leo and Calais outdoor cage, any other suggestions? I like the vine plants because they cover a lot but it is an old outdoor rabbit cage with all wire and it does have a bottom that was used to catch poop so it's a big kind of tub that i could always plant in. I want it to look pretty as well as be safe. It is in a full sun location so I will also need plants that give shade cover as well as if it rains provide protection. Any big leaf safe plant suggestions as well?

 

[seanUTD]

Hibiscus... They have big leaves BIG flowers the Cham can safely munch on and it's got nice vertical branches and it does best outside

 

[justjumpit621]

oh forgot to mention the cage is raised and is about 3 ft long by 2 ft high
so hibiscus wouldn't fit. But I am going to get a hibiscus for them because they like to munch on it.

 

[wanker]

I don't know if a bouganvilla is such a good idea. They have nasty thorns and could potentially injure your chameleons. Just my two cents.

 

[justjumpit621]

i don't see any thorns on mine and it's on the safe plants list on flchams.com?

 

[carol5208]

Bouganvilla will get thorns as they mature. BIG, thick spiky thorns that could severely injure your chameleon.They thorn like a rose bush but worse. They probably are put on the list for the sake of meaning if the leaves or blooms were eaten that they are not poisonous. I live in Florida and we are inundated with Bouganvilla down here. Unless you have some kind of hybrid that does not produce thorns then I would advise to get rid of that plant!!! Do some research on the plant itself in its full grown state and you will see what I am talking about! My neighbor has two in his backyard that hang over my fence and I dread having to cut them. They poke right through gardening gloves. Imagine what they would do to a chameleons body. Quoted off Wikipedia: "They are thorny, woody vines growing anywhere from 1-12 meters tall, scrambling over other plants with their spiky thorns. The thorns are tipped with a black, waxy substance"

 

[justjumpit621]

oooh. Okay I will find something to do with it.

 

[justjumpit621]

I guess I can trade it for a full pothos.

 

[sdheli420]

ha check out this cham impailer right here..from a matured plant..its filled with thes..good looking flowers but sucks it has thorns..