epiphyte

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Nadkarni's latest paper reviews the available science on epiphyte communities and categorizes the drivers and consequences of and societal responses to drought, wind, insects, wildfire, logging and other disturbances.

From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023

The Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis is an epiphyte - a plant that grows on another plant but gets its own nutrients from the surrounding air and rainwater.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2022

An epiphyte like the Monstera deliciosa, the staghorn fern has its roots attach to tree trunks and branches in tropical forests, and it gets its nutrients from the water and air.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2021

As an epiphyte plant, the Monstera deliciosa gets its nutrients from the air and water in the rainforest.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2021

It is an epiphyte, being always found growing, like the Orchids, among mosses and ferns, upon the trunks of large trees, especially oaks and magnolias, at an elevation of from seven to ten thousand feet.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry