Question

Nas matas brasileiras, muitas plantas, como as orquideas as bromelias e as samanbaias sao consideradas epifitas. Explique porque.

Answer 1

A widespread story among people is that any plant that lives on top of a tree to be a "parasite", leading to destructive actions of these important vegetables, especially those that do not have showy flowers, causing immense damage to the environmental balance. native bromeliads in tipuana at USP, repair around them another type of common epifita in the trunk of every tree of this species in the city, the family of ferns. native bromeliads in tipuana at USP, repair around them another type of common epiphyte in the trunk of every tree of this species in the city, the family of ferns. In tropical biodiversity in biomes such as the Atlantic Forest, where the city of São Paulo is located, almost all the trees of a mature forest have epiphytes, herbaceous plants that only use the tree as a support without harm and suck anything, and this group they are orchids, bromeliads, ferns and araceaes. Its importance in the environment goes beyond beauty, bioindicator being of forest conservation status, contributing, depending on the species, with the supply of food and water resources to the food chain and nutrient cycling in the woods. True parasites of trees in nature are very few, the most common grass-de-bird and vine-lead, and never epiphytes. In 1918, the eminent Botanical Hoehne did field work on orchids on the outskirts of São Paulo, and found a large number of different and new species for science, as Spiranthes butantanensis Hoehne, named after him. Probably these species no longer occur in the city today due to our intense urbanization.