epiphytic plant

Wood sorrel, dog violet and celandine were already in flower beneath the twisted branches of mature oak and birch, thickly draped in mosses, ferns and epiphytic plants.

Their object is to secure a home on the bark of new twig, the preferred home of the epiphytic plants.

Squamellaria are so-called epiphytic plants, which grow harmlessly on trees – relying on them for structural support but not for water or food, which they extract from the air and from rain.

The Complemental males of certain cirripedes live like epiphytic plants either on the female or hermaphrodite form, and are destitute of a mouth and prehensile limbs.

This flowerpecker was found only in the moss forest above Tenom, where it was seen numerous times feeding among the epiphytic plants.