These epiphytic communities can be so extensive as to interfere with photosynthesis and can break limbs (7) Most mineral cycling occurs among the epiphytes and the growing leaves of the forest canopy (8) Vines as thick as a man's thigh abound (a) Strangler tree is an example (b) Overgrows the trunk of the host, eventually killing it c. Epiphytes (1) Rain tends to run off the host tree branches immediately leaving xerophytic condiditons for many epiphytes (2) Cacti make good epiphytes under these conditions (3) Staghorn ferns possess specialized leaves that retain pockets of spongy soil that absorb water (4) Orchids have specialized spongy tissues surrounding their roots that store water and harbor cyanobacteria for nitrogen fixing (5) Bromeliads store as much as a gallon of rainwater in their leaf cups (a) Mosquito larvae and other insects live in these aerial swamps (b) Quite a diversity of life!
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the host tree branches immediately leaving xerophytic condiditons for many epiphytes
pockets of spongy soil that absorb water
to run off the host tree branches
specialized leaves that retain pockets of spongy soil
limbs
their roots that store water and harbor cyanobacteria for nitrogen fixing (5) Bromeliads store as much as a gallon of rainwater in their leaf cups (a) Mosquito larvae and other insects live in these aerial swamps (b) Quite a diversity of life
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