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Meaning of "epiphytes"
Epiphyte is a type of plant that grows harmlessly on another plant or object, using it for structural support while deriving nutrients and water from the air, rain, or debris around it
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These epiphytes are mainly dominated by the mosses.
Such cacti are classed as epiphytes or epiphytic cacti.
Most of the species in this genus are epiphytes.
They are usually epiphytes that grow on trees.
These species are similar and preferably epiphytes.
Orchids are epiphytes that live on tree branches.
On top of tree branches there are numerous epiphytes.
The most common epiphytes are bromeliads.
The ericaceous forest supports many epiphytes.
One of the most usual epiphytes is the orchid.
Keep in mind that most orchids are epiphytes.
Epiphytes are different from parasites.
I did not know that it was in the epiphytes family.
Vascular epiphytes are responsible for considerable part of tropical biodiversity.
It is an important host plant for epiphytes.
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Epiphytes are plants that grow on the surface of other plants.
About one quarter of these are epiphytes.
Species are either epiphytes or terrestrial.
The forests do not have large numbers of epiphytes.
One of the most common epiphytes is the orchid.
Almost a third of leptosporangiate fern species are epiphytes.
One of the most frequent epiphytes is the orchid.
Epiphytes acquire water and nutrients from the air.
Many of the gray species are epiphytes.
Epiphytes are plants that grow on the surface of another plant.
Orchids and bromeliads grow as epiphytes.
Lianas and epiphytes are abundant.
This is a good tree for hosting for epiphytes.
All species in this genus are epiphytes with a sympodial growth.
Epiphytes are common in tropical rain forest and in cloud forest.
Areas where there are epiphytes.
Orchids and epiphytes make up a large part of the collection.
Her field of research is the structure and community of epiphytes.
Why do you think epiphytes attach themselves to other trees.
Most of the species are slightly succulent epiphytes or small trees.
Trees with epiphytes were found to be significantly larger than those without.
These are pendent epiphytes.
Rhododendrons grow as epiphytes in the trees as do specialised cloud forest orchids.
The forest at the type locality is very rich in epiphytes.
The plants grow as epiphytes in clearings and along forest edges.
The mountains are mostly covered in dense rainforest rich in epiphytes.
Algae are the most common group of epiphytes in marine systems.
It is presumed that they nest in bromeliads conglomerates or other epiphytes.
The areas which most epiphytes grow are the montane rainforests.
Beech forest rich in epiphytes.
Other epiphytes take advantage of their hosts without harming them.
Includes a separate survey on trunk epiphytes and aerial green algae.
Epiphytes growing areas.
The weight of large numbers of epiphytes may break tree limbs.
Many epiphytes avoid harming the plant on which they grow.
