What Plants survive in the Rainforest?



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There are a wide variety of plants that live in the rainforest to many to write them all down but their familys is a different matter there are four diferent families altogether they are: Epiphytes,Mangroves,Prop and Stilt roots,Buttresses.Epiphytes are trees that have adapted their roots to grip other trees and live on them, their roots don't need to be in the soil but they live off air.Mangroves live in the water usually in swamps and canals. Their roots actally don't survive in the water but grow taller and stick out of the water to breathe in the carbon dioxide these roots are called snorkels.Prop and stilt trees grow their roots in very shallowly wet soils.These trees grow very slowly but there roots will grow faster than the tree.Buttresses are large trees so their roots build up extra stability or the tree to live without it leaning over from the weight.