🌿🌱🌾🌍🌎🍄👻💮Ghost orchids! Named for appearance, and seasonal for Halloween! Epipogium aphyllum, totally relies on mycorrhiza, fungi around tree roots, for nutrition. Europe and Asia. Dendrophytax lindenii, epiphyte, no leaves but photosynthetic roots. Cuba and Florida only. Both dramatic!!
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October 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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📰Gregorio Aragón, #IICG researcher, is co-author of the new article ‘Tree forks drive epiphyte diversity in Spanish holm oak dehesas: unveiling critical tree morphological factors. ’, published in Eur J Forest Res.
👀Read it here👇
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👀Read it here👇
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Tree forks drive epiphyte diversity in Spanish holm oak dehesas: unveiling critical tree morphological factors - European Journal of Forest Research
Unlike other Mediterranean forest habitats, Spanish holm oak (Quercus ilex subsp. ballota) open woodlands, known as dehesas, exhibit lower diversity of epiphytes (lichens and bryophytes). However, pre...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Resurrection Fern, Pleurozopus polypodioides
It's an epiphyte that gets nutrients from rain and air. Doesn't hurt the tree.
It can lose a lot of water, seem dead, then when watered it comes alive, thus its name.
It's an epiphyte that gets nutrients from rain and air. Doesn't hurt the tree.
It can lose a lot of water, seem dead, then when watered it comes alive, thus its name.
October 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Ah yes, the most famous epiphyte...water lettuce. 🪴
Come explore the unique world of epiphytes—plants that grow on other plants without relying on soil! 🌱
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October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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"Comme s'il n'avait pas sa personnalité – cette branche qui se tord comme ça ce creux où niche une chouette cette robe de mousse épiphyte ce renflement d'écorce cette liane de clématite."
Fanny Chiarello (in Colline)
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Rhizomiques #223 (carte sensible)
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October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Stenglottis longifolium bloomed!
This one's a terrestrial rather than an epiphyte and I was expecting to need to wait a year or two for a bloom but I guess it's very happy
This one's a terrestrial rather than an epiphyte and I was expecting to need to wait a year or two for a bloom but I guess it's very happy
October 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Being from the Midwest, it is nice to see other plants when I travel. Here is an epiphyte, Tillandsia, in the parking lot of the hotel.
October 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Inktober Forêt Primaire 2025 🌳
Jour 13 - Épiphyte
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Jour 13 - Épiphyte
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October 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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something i loved about florida was realizing it's as if someone tried to recreate the tropics using north american flora and fauna. i loved seeing epiphyte-covered red maples in tropical hammocks, or pileated woodpeckers flying between grassland palms like crimson-crested woodpeckers on the llanos
October 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I have the epiphyte on the left outside! Have never seen blooms all at once; they seem to bloom like popcorn, 1 or 2 at a time, then 3 ... lovely.
October 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Remounted my Platycerium ridleyi from cedar to a fernwood block so it can keep mounding. Fresh sphagnum, gentle ties, bright-filtered light. Small project, big payoff for epiphyte lovers. 🌿
October 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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You, like me, are an epiphyte. We grow on or in other places. Get our nutrients from the air. We are non parasitical; only absorbing nutrients as needed but can survive on anything. We have no “roots”. Roots are for things that need stability. Epiphytes can fall anywhere and survive.
October 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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www.broward.org/Kids/Pages/K... Let us see: - living things transform polluted air.
-soaking up extra heat or calming storms.
-An organism whose favorite food is particles that don’t belong in the air or spreads to protect other living things from pollution. Pictured is an epiphyte .
-soaking up extra heat or calming storms.
-An organism whose favorite food is particles that don’t belong in the air or spreads to protect other living things from pollution. Pictured is an epiphyte .
October 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Word of the Hour: Superplant - A plant growing on another as the mistletoe; an epiphyte. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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First record of tiny hyper-oceanic liverwort Drepanolejeunea hamatifolia for co. Cavan (VC H30) from Tullydermot Falls on Salix sp.
One of the oceanic liverworts appearing to increasing as an epiphyte
#Bryophytes #bryology #liverwort #temperaterainforest #Ireland #Cavan
One of the oceanic liverworts appearing to increasing as an epiphyte
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September 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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After long research I decided to not purchased it cos it work pretty different than epiphyte orchids, too high maintenance, so for now nope. Instead I purchased two other fancy plants (because juicy discouints) that share the same soil requeriments and same care as the other two I have so purrfect
September 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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A few snaps from today. 🌏
September 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Spring is sprung! Sydney Rock Orchid (Dendrobium speciosum), which grows as an epiphyte on trees or a lithophyte on rocks. A hardy and popular species found along the east coast of Aust, producing showy racemes of creamy-white flowers in spring. #WildOz #orchids #AustralianWildflowers
September 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Maybe it’s an epiphyte 🙂
September 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Whether it actually counts as a rainforest I don’t know. But certainly lots of epiphyte action.
September 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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🌿 We have some strange plants here at home. The tillandsias and the vanda are epiphytes and grow without soil or a pot. But they get a weekly bath in rainwater. It’s fun to watch and rainwater tastes really good.
#nala #tillandsia #vanda #epiphyte #rainwater #bath
#nala #tillandsia #vanda #epiphyte #rainwater #bath
September 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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White ibis.
Southeast Texas, September 2025
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Southeast Texas, September 2025
#Birds #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #TexasStateParks #Ibis #Birding #BirdWatching #WildlifePhotography #Nature #Wildlife
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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"There’s physiological complications with pulling water 300 feet up against gravity.
The trees snag the fog moisture out of the air [...]
They make roots in their crowns, like hundreds of feet above the forest floor that are growing into these crazy wet epiphyte mats and presumably uptaking water"
The trees snag the fog moisture out of the air [...]
They make roots in their crowns, like hundreds of feet above the forest floor that are growing into these crazy wet epiphyte mats and presumably uptaking water"
Why Are Redwoods So Big?
It’s almost impossible to appreciate their size until you see them for yourself.
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September 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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recalling this bit of Cryptonomicon for no reason in particular today
September 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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