RAINFOREST PLANTS

Umbrella plant is a popular houseplant. It is commonly known as the Dwarf umbrella tree. These beautiful plants can successfully be grown indoors. One of the best things about them is that they can easily be kept to a small size. They will grow around 4 to 8 feet tall indoors. They are also easy to care for so it is not difficult to make your umbrella plant thrive inside your home.

DID YOU KNOW? that 1 out of 4 ingredients in our medicene is from raiforest plants

80% of the flowers in the Australian rainforests are not found anywhere else in the world.THAS CRAZY!

Learning about Rainforests PLANTS OF THE RAINFOREST Scenic Rainforest A tropical greenhouse. More than two thirds of the world's plant species are found in the tropical rainforests: plants that provide shelter and food for rainforest animals as well as taking part in the gas exchanges which provide much of the world's oxygen supply.

Rainforest plants live in a warm humid environment that allows an enormous variation rare in more temperate climates: some like the orchids have beautiful flowers adapted to attract the profusion of forest insects.



In fact most of the plants in a tropical rainforest are trees. These amazing plants reach heights of 150 feet (45.7 meters) and taller. They provide food and shelter for many of the rainforest animals. There are more different species of trees in the rainforests of the world than anywhere else on the earth.

Most trees in the rainforest grow rapidly to escape the darkness of the forest floor and understory and to reach the needed sunlight of the canopy. When a gap in the canopy appears, for example due to a fallen tree, these small trees are capable of a growth surge in order to take advantage of the opportunity for sunlight. It is often impossible for even trained botanist to identify a tropical rainforest tree by its bark. Most of the trees have very similar thin and smooth bark. Therefore they must be identified by some of their other characteristics such as by their flowers. Tropical rainforest trees release a tremendous amount of water through pores in their leaves in a process called transpiration. This process can account for about half of the precipitation in some rainforests.

Most trees in this biome tower over the rainforest with their branches and leaves creating a canopy (canopy layer) high above the forest floor. This canopy lets as little as one percent of the sunlight reach the forest floor in some regions. The demand for wood such as teak and mahogany for lumber have contributed to the rapid deforestation of tropical rainforest.

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