Looking for a tortoise safe vine

Maro2Bear

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How about Honeysuckle.

It’s a vine ✅
Tortoise safe ✅
Drought resistant - mostly, once established
Attracts birds & butterflies - ✅
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How about Honeysuckle.

It’s a vine ✅
Tortoise safe ✅
Drought resistant - mostly, once established
Attracts birds & butterflies - ✅
Info -

And Honeysuckle keep their leaves all year. A good source for winter feeding.
 

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You guys are right honey suckle is a great option as I already have a 30 foot tall one and 220 foot tall ones I think I want to switch things up a little bit here are some photos
 

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Tom

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Looking for a fast growing tortoise safe vine that is relatively low water in Southern California any suggestions
Yes on the honeysuckle, but grape leaves are great tortoise food and the vines do great in our climate in full hot sun all day. You can also do Cape Honeysuckle, and also look into lavatera, and blue hibiscus. Not really vines, but great tortoise food plants.

And you are growing copious quantities of spineless opuntia too, right? No water most of the year, and once a week water in summer.
 

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Just started growing Cactus Pads only have three small plants that are growing fast I live on the canyon and there’s a ton of cactus down there that’s where I get most of mine from
 
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That won't live outside in SoCal you tropical climate livin' baboon!!!

I'm calling you names because I'm jealous of your climate and state... ;)
I assume too much in response to posts sometimes.
You probably will too once you've moved here.
There is Pothos here everywhere growing wild with leaves 20" across.
I take for granted that it isn't all over the country
 

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I assume too much in response to posts sometimes.
You probably will too once you've moved here.
There is Pothos here everywhere growing wild with leaves 20" across.
I take for granted that it isn't all over the country
I have seen that giant pothos of which you speak. I thought it must be something else, but I followed the vine down to the ground and went "HOLY SH**!" out loud. I'e never seen pothos leaves get that big, and its just growing wild everywhere. My friend just mows it down with the brush hog to keep it under control.
 

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I have seen that giant pothos of which you speak. I thought it must be something else, but I followed the vine down to the ground and went "HOLY SH**!" out loud. I'e never seen pothos leaves get that big, and its just growing wild everywhere. My friend just mows it down with the brush hog to keep it under control.
I remembered this old post and took a picture of a Jurassic Park Pothos vine strangling a palm tree.
Though not uncommon it's rare to see a giant Pothos just smother a 45-55 foot tree.
This tree is growing from a canal bank down below what you can see and continues up much farther than you can see.
the Queen or Royal Palm tree looks to still be alive at this time.
This is what your 99 cent plant from Walmart will turn into if you don't trim it back here in Florida
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You guys are right honey suckle is a great option as I already have a 30 foot tall one and 220 foot tall ones I think I want to switch things up a little bit here are some photos
That's technically not a honeysuckle. It has honeysuckle in the common name due to the shape of the flower. It is actually an esperanza, Tecoma capensis. Due to the common name, commonly confused as a honeysuckle when it isn't.
 

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