Amazon River (video expedition) Part 13, Lecture on Epiphytes

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Uploaded by on Nov 26, 2006

During a field trip, the guide showed us epiphytes

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  • schizoknight12 you're totally wrong... what you're referring to is a parasitic plant such as love vines and bird vines... They have modified roots called haustorium to penetrate a host plant so that it can absorb nutrition from the vascular bundle.. Epiphytes such as bromeliads and orchids do not penetrate hosts and do not have a modified root, they just use a host plant for support

  • many of them are parasites with roots that dig into the host plant and rob it of much-needed nutrients.

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