99+ Tropical Rainforest Shrubs

Many of the herbaceous plants of the rainforest are epiphytes including ferns bromeliads orchids and arums although there are also exclusively terrestrial plants like some of those of the zingiberales order including heliconia gingers bananas and birds of paradise. They may have very thin barks having thorns or spines.

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Kowloonese via wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0 heliconia flowers. Bromeliads are a family of flowering plants. Heliconias are popular ornamental plants in many parts of the world. They are also known as lobster claws due to the shape of their flowers.

Water is collected in the cylinder formed by the leaves. Orchids are known for their striking appearance and their incredible variety. They grow on the forest floor and are pollinated by hummingbirds attracted by their brightly colored flowers. Even so because of the shaded conditions a true shrub story is unusual in forests and only scattered vines and shrubs are present.

Bromeliads have a tight rosette of spiky leaves. The water is used not only by the plant itself but also by many rainforest animals. Flowers of these plants usually grow directly from the bark. Common examples of tropical rainforest plants some of the tropical rainforest plants are pineapple pepper palm tree orchid fern peanut orange lemon coffee banana and avocado.

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