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www.selby.org/about/what-are-epiphytes
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Epiphytes are plants that live on other plants but are traditionally classified as ... Their overlapping rosettes of leaves often form tanks or cisterns of water high off ...
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www.selby.org/learningandgrowing/articles/what-epiphyte
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The word, epiphyte, is derived from two Greek terms, epi- and phyte, literally ... Their overlapping rosettes of leaves often form tanks or cisterns of water high off ...
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www.moon.com/destinations/costa-rica/background/flora
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The plants gain nourishment from dissolved nutrients in the cisterns. Known as tank epiphytes, they provide trysting places and homes for tiny aquatic animals ...
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www.discoveringcostarica.com/rainforests_costarica.html
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The plants gain nourishment from dissolved nutrients in the cisterns. Known as " tank epiphytes," they provide trysting places and homes for tiny aquatic animals ...
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www.travelingcostarica.com/travel/costa-rica/nature.htm
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The plants gain nourishment from dissolved nutrients in the cisterns. Known as " tank epiphytes," they provide trysting places and homes for tiny aquatic animals ...
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www.megiddo.com/nepiphytes.asp
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Orchids far outnumber any other plant in having epiphyte varieties. ... Bromeliads, perched high on tree limbs in the tropics, are veritable cisterns, their large ...
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www.potrero-costarica.com/index.php?act=nature
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The plants gain nourishment from dissolved nutrients in the cisterns. Known as " tank epiphytes," they provide trysting places and homes for tiny aquatic animals ...
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blue.utb.edu/elinder/Rainforests.ppt
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Bromeliads are abundant epiphytes in almost all Neotropical moist forests; Leaves of many species are arranged in an overlapping rosette to form a cistern that ...
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homeweb.unifr.ch/barbarat/pub/SA2000.pdf
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Some of these epiphytes hold water in the rosette formed by their leaves and ... but also frogs, crabs, worms and microorganisms—living in these leafy cisterns.
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