I wouldn't worry about it for the chameleons sake. If you were keeping veileds this might be a problem (more from husbandry problems of being too moist than from the ingestion possibility.) You may want to investigate them more closely to see if they are growing in the soil or on the tree itself. If they are growing on the tree this may indicate that your ficus tree is in trouble as fungal infections are often indicitive that the tree is on it's way out. In this case you may want to see if you have proper drainage in your cage as overwatering may be causing root rot on your trees. BTW although they are obviously not chameleons American box turtles routinely eat animita mushrooms which would easily kill you or me and in fact are so potentialy toxic themselves from eating these mushrooms that it is dangerous to eat them (not that I would anyway, but this is what NYS claims is the basis of their law classifying box turtles as a game species with a "permanent closed season"

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