I had to run to vegas this weekend and while I was there I did some shopping for my mantella vivarium I am building.

We'll i found this adorable plant at home depot and couldn't resist buying it in hopes of using it. However, the darn thing does say it can reach 4 - 6 feet in height ( hehe ). The label says it's a Aralia Fabian Polyscias but when I looked it up It looks nothing like what home depo says it is and I did find one that looked the same, Aralia MING stump.

I asked when I was at home depot about the possibility of using it in a terrarium and keeping it small and the guy said it was possible if I prune it. We'll to be honest when it comes to plants I don't know squat so I just went with it and got it in hopes that I could figure out something.

One thing that was mentioned is keeping the roots from going wild so I was wondering If you think it would be ok to actually build my false bottom around the actual pot of the plant and just keeping it planted in the pot? I know of a few ways I think I could make it work and that would allow me to be able to pull the plant out of the pot if needed.

Do you think that should work? Also, I don't mind the extra work of trying to keep it small I was just wondering if there is anything else I should keep in mind?

If it all fails, I guess I have a cool looking house plant.