schefflera amata

[veildowner]

anyone used a schefflera amata plants for there cage ive just bought two big ones for a tenner each. they are about three and a half foot tall with good thick branches.

 

[svinyard]

anyone used a schefflera amata plants for there cage ive just bought two big ones for a tenner each. they are about three and a half foot tall with good thick branches.

I have heard the only non-toxic one is the Ambrolica which is more like a bush. I truely hope that the Amata is ok to though as it's a great looking tree for a large 5 -7 foot enclosure. Putting together a good cage design for something big and plant selection at that size becomes difficult...plus Amata have that amazing jungle look to them. Just spent over a week in the Amazon Basin and they were everywhere but huge (well at least I thought that's what they were)

 

[DGray]

not so fast-igiate

anyone used a schefflera amata plants for there cage ive just bought two big ones for a tenner each. they are about three and a half foot tall with good thick branches.

Schefflera 'Amate' is a fastigiate or columnar form of S. actinophylla and should not be used in animal environments.

 

[lisagr07]

now i'm worrying..... i'm not really sure which type of schefflera i have...... are they different enough that a good pic will help ID them?