Page 2 Epiphytes include orchids and bromeliads. Both have adapted to require little water by having thick, waxy leaves. These provide water to canopy-dwelling animals, and bromeliad frogs live their entire life cycle within these bromeliads, even laying their eggs in the water within. These frogs never come into contact with the forest floor.
Orchids often have fleshy pods and waxy leaves which can store water.
They produce tens of thousands of seeds so tiny that they are barely visible. They float through the air, in the hope that perhaps one may land in a favorable location. This saves energy and yet attracts the night-flying moths which fertilize its flowers. One feature seen in some rainforest trees not seen elsewhere is flowering directly from the trunk or woody part of the tree. This is the cocoa tree.