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An epiphyte is a plant that grows upon another plant ( such as a tree ) non-parasitically or sometimes upon some other object ( such as a building or a telegraph wire ), derives its moisture and nutrients from the air and rain and sometimes from debris accumulating around it, and is found in the temperate zone ( e. g., many mosses, liverworts, lichens and algae ) or in the tropics ( e. g., many ferns, cacti, orchids, and bromeliads ).
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Spanish moss is an epiphyte which absorbs nutrients ( especially calcium ) and water from the air and rainfall.
It is an epiphyte growing to 20 m tall, with stems up to 4 cm diameter, climbing by means of aerial roots which adhere to surfaces.
A banyan ( also banian ) is a fig that starts its life as an epiphyte ( a plant growing on another plant ) when its seeds germinate in the cracks and crevices on a host tree ( or on structures like buildings and bridges ).
The name is from the Greek dendron (" tree ") and bios (" life "); it means " one who lives on trees ", or, essentially, " epiphyte ".
As Ficus macrophylla is a strangler fig ; seed germination usually takes place in the canopy of a host tree and the seedling lives as an epiphyte until its roots establish contact with the ground.
It is a group of tropical epiphyte orchids that grow mainly in the warm low-lands of the tropics of Asia that are highly prized in horticulture for their racemes of showy, intensely fragrant, and colorful flowers.
Well-known lianas include monkey ladder ( Entada gigas ), water vine ( Cissus hypoglauca or members of the genus Doliocarpus ), but not pothos ( Epipremnum aureum ), which is classified as an epiphyte or herbaceous vine.
This member of the Arum family is an epiphyte with aerial roots, able to grow up to 20 m ( 65 feet ) high with large, leathery, glossy, heart-shaped leaves 25 – 90 cm ( 9 to 35 inches ) long by 25 – 75 cm broad.
They jump off a tower but Othon is quick enough to inject a potion of epiphyte into Honorata with a dart gun, letting her hover away.
) is an example of a strangler fig that begins life as an epiphyte in the crown of another tree.
Another strangler that begins life as an epiphyte is the Moreton Bay Fig ( Ficus macrophylla ) of tropical and subtropical eastern Australia, which has powerfully descending aerial roots.
This fern is an epiphyte, or air plant, which means it attaches itself to other plants and gets its nutrients from the air and from water and nutrients that collect on the outer surface of bark.
Higher temperatures, strain on evaporation, and contact to light cause CAM-idling, which is the epiphyte closing its stomata when it becomes stressed, that brings down the range of habitats a species can inhabit.
This is a large, perennial, detrivore, and epiphyte, or at times a terrestrial plant, growing in sometimes spectacular clumps, attached to the branches of tall trees.
The other genus, Tmesipteris, is an epiphyte found in Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia.
It is considered by some as parasitic, however as it only receives structural support from Knotted Wrack ( i. e. non-parasitically ), it acts as an epiphyte.
in the horticultural trade, is an orchid genus formed by nine epiphyte species and eight natural hybrids inhabitants of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, one species reaching the northeast of Argentina and east of Paraguay.
Dendrophylax lindenii, the ghost orchid ( a common name also used for Epipogium aphyllum ) is a perennial epiphyte from the orchid family ( Orchidaceae ).
This orchid is a leafless epiphyte of the Vandeae family.
Cirrhopetalum, abbreviated as Cirr in hortcultural trade, is a genus of epiphyte orchids ( family Orchidaceae, subfamily Epidendroideae ).
It is an epiphyte or lithophyte growing to 1. 5 m tall, with leathery, green leaves that are 4 – 8 cm long, ovate to lanceolate, opposite or whorled.
Rhipsalis is found as an epiphyte in tropical rainforests, some species may also grow epilithic or, rarely, terrestrial.
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The plant then grows as an epiphyte.
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The adaptable Bird's Nest Fern ( Asplenium australasicum ) grows in a variety of sites as an epiphyte on large trees, independently growing on the forest floor or attached to rocks.
It also fairly frequently grows as an epiphyte in clefts or cavities of larger trees such as Scots Pines, though epiphytic specimens rarely have growing conditions adequate for them to reach maturity.
It grows from a short, creeping rhizome as a tufted, robust epiphyte to a length between 8 and 35 cm.
Other notable species include the Mountain Aspen Acronychia chooreechillum, Trochocarpa bellendenkerensis, Polyscias bellendenkerensis, the vine Parsonsia bartlensis and Australia's only native rhododendron, Rhododendron lochiae which grows on top of the large granite boulders or as an epiphyte in the cloud forest canopy.
At least one species, Z. pseudoparasitica, grows as an epiphyte in the branches of trees.
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Often birds ' droppings contain rowan seeds, and if such droppings land in a fork or hole where old leaves have accumulated on a larger tree, such as an oak or a maple, they may result in a rowan growing as an epiphyte on the larger tree.
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Young Picea sitchensis | Sitka Spruce growing as an epiphyte on an older tree in the Hoh Rainforest
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They are sometimes successfully bred in captivity if kept under adequate conditions in high-humidity vivaria ( e. g. by using misting equipment ), tropical plants like bromelia and other epiphyte plants, together with well-aerated water pools.
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Furthermore these orchids are " terrestrial ", because unlike " epiphyte " species do not live at the expense of other plants of major sizes.
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The high moisture promotes the development of a high biomass and biodiversity of epiphyte, particularly bryophytes, lichens, ferns ( including filmy ferns ), bromeliads and orchids.
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The facultative epiphyte B. tatei – together with the tree-like B. micrantha with its massive, gutter-like leaf axils that hold liters of rainwater – captures a great deal of falling vegetable debris.
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* Cirrhopetalum elegans, an epiphyte orchid species found in Malaya
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Habit of Collospermum hastatum, an epiphyte in the forests of New Zealand.
89 % of epiphyte species ( about 24, 000 ) are flowering plants.
File: Cadzow oak epiphyte 2. JPG | Detail of the main trunk and branches of an ancient oak
armeniaca ( C. America ).. Pseudobulb epiphyte
bicolor ( S. India, Sri Lanka ) Pseudobulb epiphyte
cyperifolium ( Himalaya to S. China ).. Pseudobulb epiphyte
E. Asia ) Pseudobulb epiphyte
forrestii: Yunnanese Spring Orchid ( Chinese: 雲南春蘭, 朵朵香 ) ( SW. China ) Pseudobulb epiphyte
Other than marble, the planet possesses a material far more valuable: It's a blue, jelly-like substance, called epiphyte, whose properties defy the laws of gravity.
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