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Aerophyte vs. Epiphyte — What's the Difference?

Aerophyte vs. Epiphyte — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Aerophyte and Epiphyte

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Aerophyte

See epiphyte.

Epiphyte

An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. Epiphytes take part in nutrient cycles and add to both the diversity and biomass of the ecosystem in which they occur, like any other organism.

Aerophyte

(biology) epiphyte

Epiphyte

A plant, such as a tropical orchid or a staghorn fern, that grows on another plant upon which it depends for mechanical support but not for nutrients.Also called aerophyte, air plant.

Aerophyte

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.
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Epiphyte

(botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant.

Aerophyte

Plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it

Epiphyte

(biology) A fungus that grows on a plant but does not feed upon it saprotrophically (an epiphytic fungus); the science of detecting and studying any such symbiosis as may be involved in this relationship is still developing.

Epiphyte

An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.

Epiphyte

A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.

Epiphyte

Plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it

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