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I am trying to get everything ready for when my veiled chameleon arrives but I am having great difficult buying the plants suggested in the safe lists I have found. This is most likely due to the various names used and also lack of availability in the UK.

I have found it impossible to track down any hibiscus rosa-sinesa. Anyone know where I can get it in the UK please. The same goes for Pothos aka Devil's Ivy. None of the Garden Centres I have tried supply either plant.

Is it OK to use Hedera instead?
Is Wandering Jew also known as Tradescantia?
Is Calathea the Zebra plant????
Which Draceana?

I could go on but I think you get the picture. Is there an absolute "fool proof" way of not poisoning my new Cham apart from using plastic plants!

Listed below are the plants I have bought. If anyone has any doubts about them could they tell me:

Calathea Mix "Maui Queen"
Tradescantia Hanging
Bougainvillea
Fiscus benjamina
Fatsia Japonica

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Colleen

the best way to be sure is to either go by scientific names, or to call your local library and talk to someone at the reference desk. there's a good safe plant list that gives scientific and common name of most plants on chameleonsonline.
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i would use the ficus more than a potho becuase the pothos are so thick big chams dont really climb in them

the ficus it more of a tree so they like them alot more.