epiphytes
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Epiphytes are all plant species that have opted for an epiphytic way of life, ie that grow on other plants. Epiphytes benefit from this way of life as land plants from a stronger incidence of light, which contributes to photosynthesis and also provides the plants with better light and water. The most famous epiphytes in this country include numerous forest mosses, which rarely receive adequate light supply on the moist and dark soil and therefore grow on the trunk of trees. Various types of mushrooms also use the epiphytic way of life and settle on trees and other trees. The advantage that epiphytes receive from this is offset by the disadvantage of a potential loss of contact with the ground, which leads to an undersupply of the plant with nutrients that are found in the ground. In addition to their particular growth, epiphytes are also characterized by other botanical skills that particularly suit their individual way of life. The formation of bromeliads should be mentioned explicitly in order to store water on the leaf surface in a targeted manner or to open the bromeliads again in times of greater drought. The way in which the epiphytes live is neither parasitic nor symbiotic with regard to the plants on which they have settled. In most cases, there is a neutral coexistence of, for example, trees and their mosses.
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