Assertion: vine's root | /r/CapableOf | reach the ground
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text: Hemiepiphytes grow extremely slowly due to dry conditions in the canopy but once the roots reach the ground and tap into the nutrients of the leaf litter, growth rates accelerate.
text: As it grows, long roots develop and descend along the trunk of the host tree, eventually reaching the ground and entering the soil.