The key to successfully cultivating epiphytic Vanda species are consistent growth conditions.

Probably many species were epiphytic.

The species are terrestrial ( sometimes epiphytic ) herbs or undershrubs and occur in subtropical and tropical moist climates, in South and Central America, Africa and southern Asia.

Plants such as New Zealand species of Griselinia, which send long roots down towards the soil while fixed high in another plant and reliant upon it for physical support, are also epiphytic in habit.

However, the family is diverse enough to include the tank bromeliads, grey-leaved epiphytic Tillandsia species that gather water only from leaf structures called trichomes, and a large number of desert-dwelling succulents.

Terrestrial bromeliad species have complex root systems that gather water and nutrients while epiphytic bromeliads only grow hard, wiry roots to attach themselves to trees and rocks.

In Australia, the epiphytic species are commonly known as Tassel ferns.

Some botanists however split Huperzia into two genera, Huperzia in the narrow sense including 10-15 species of terrestrial temperate to Arctic species, and the rest in Phlegmariurus, a primarily tropical to subtropical genus of mainly epiphytic species.

As a group they show a huge range in vegetative form, terrestrial or epiphytic, and can be found as tall cane-like plants a metre or so high, clumped or trailing, pendent or climbing, erect or creeping, tufted and tiny, delicate moss-like species that can grow on the thinnest of twigs.

The generic name Stelis is the Greek word for ' mistletoe ', referring to the epiphytic habit of these species.

These epiphytic and terrestrial species are distributed in Central America and the northwest Andes, almost half in Ecuador alone.

Restrepia antennifera, the Antennae-carrying Restrepia, is an epiphytic, miniature species of orchid found at higher altitudes in cool, moist montane forests in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador.

This rare epiphytic species has only been found on two occasions in the cool, damp montane forests of the Western Cordillera of Colombia at altitudes between 1, 800 m to 2, 000 m.

This rare epiphytic species is endemic to the cool, damp montane forests of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia at altitudes of about 2, 600 m.

The plants can become quite massive in habitat and in cultivation, and epiphytic species possess very large, rambling aerial root systems.

The epiphytic species are best accommodated in large wooden baskets bare root, which allows for the large aerial root systems.

When grown bare root, the epiphytic species require daily watering and weekly feeding and are very heavy feeders in cultivation.

Seagrass beds are highly diverse and productive ecosystems, and can harbor hundreds of associated species from all phyla, for example juvenile and adult fish, epiphytic and free-living macroalgae and microalgae, mollusks, bristle worms, and nematodes.

Dendrobium species are either epiphytic, or occasionally lithophytic.

Some species are epiphytic ( H. calyptratum, H. aulicum, H. papilio and H. arboricola ) and need good air circulation around their roots.

The naming of the genus refers to the epiphytic growth habit of the species, and literally means ' air-plant '.

There are 25 monopodial epiphytic species in this genus, ( with the exception of Aerides krabiense, which is a lithophyte ).

The various hydroponic media available, such as expanded clay and coconut husk, contain more air space than more traditional potting mixes, delivering increased oxygen to the roots, which is important in epiphytic plants such as orchids and bromeliads, whose roots are exposed to the air in nature.

Here the trees are covered with epiphytic mosses and vascular plants, especially bromeliads, and these also cover large areas of the ground.

The plants are either self-supporting or epiphytic.

Parasitic and semiparasitic plants growing on other plants ( mistletoe is well known ) are not " true " epiphytes ( a designation usually given to fully autotrophic epiphytes ), but are still epiphytic in habit.

Some epiphytic plants are large trees that begin their lives high in the forest canopy.

In Europe there are no dedicated epiphytic plants using roots, but rich assemblages of mosses and lichens grow on trees in damp areas ( mainly the western coastal fringe ), and the common polypody fern grows epiphytically along branches.

Examples are epiphytic plants ( such as many orchids ) that grow on trees, or birds that live in holes in trees.

These mainly epiphytic ( rarely lithophytic plants are distributed throughout damp mountain forests in tropical North and Central America.

Peacock orchids ( genus Pleione ) are a small group of beautiful, predominantly terrestrial but sometimes epiphytic or lithophytic, miniature orchids.

These mostly epiphytic, but sometimes lithophytic or terrestrial orchids are distributed in India, Himalaya, SE Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, southern China and northern Australia.

Plants are often rhizomatous, and can be terrestrial or epiphytic.

), provided the epiphytic growth of its several food plants are present.

Species are usually epiphytic, sometimes lithophytic small orchids, resembling Vandas in appearance.

The term most commonly refers to higher plants, but epiphytic bacteria, fungi ( epiphytic fungi ), algae, lichens, mosses, and ferns exist as well.

The best-known epiphytic plants include mosses, orchids, and bromeliads such as Spanish moss ( of the genus Tillandsia ), but epiphytic plants may be found in every major group of the plant kingdom.

Therefore a substantial amount of epiphytic plants have cemented their existence in the flora of El Yunque, specifically in the dwarf forest due to the moisture, precipitation and protection from the sun.

Most are epiphytic shade plants ; a few are lithophytes.

The New Zealand Falcon nests in a scrape in grassy soil or humus in various locations: under a rock on a steep slope or on a rock ledge, among epiphytic plants on a tree branch, or under a log or branch on the ground, making the two or three eggs that they lay vulnerable to predators such as stray cats, stoats, weasels, possum, and wild dogs.

These epiphytic plants attach to trunks and branches and obtain water and minerals from rain and debris that collects on the supporting plants.

They are flowerless, vascular, terrestrial or epiphytic plants, with widely-branched, erect, prostrate or creeping stems, with small, simple, needle-like or scale-like leaves that cover the stem and branches thickly.