Plants+of+the+Rainforest

=**PLANTS OF THE RAINFOREST Bahía**=

//** 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.

Competition at ground level for light and food has lead to evolution of plants which live on the branches of other plants, or even strangle large trees to fight for survival.

The aerial plants often gather nourishment from the air itself using so-called 'air roots';. The humidity of the rainforest encourages such adaptations which would be impossible in most temperate forests with their much drier conditions.
 * [[image:http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/images/plants/bromeliads.gif width="172" height="42" align="center" caption="Bromeliads" link="http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/bromeliads.html"]] || [[image:http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/images/plants/buttress.gif width="172" height="42" align="center" caption="Buttress Roots" link="http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/buttress.html"]] || [[image:http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/images/plants/carniverous.gif width="172" height="42" align="center" caption="Carniverous Plants" link="http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/carniverous.html"]] ||
 * [[image:http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/images/plants/epiphytes.gif width="172" height="42" align="center" caption="Epiphytes" link="http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/epiphytes.html"]] || [[image:http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/images/plants/lianas.gif width="172" height="42" align="center" caption="Lianas" link="http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/lianas.html"]] || [[image:http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/images/plants/orchids.gif width="172" height="42" align="center" caption="Orchids" link="http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/orchids.html"]] ||
 * [[image:http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/images/plants/saprophytes.gif width="172" height="42" align="center" caption="Saprophytes" link="http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/saprophytes.html"]] || [[image:http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/images/plants/stilt-prop.gif width="172" height="42" align="center" caption="Stilt/Prop Roots" link="http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/stilt.html"]] || [[image:http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/images/plants/strangler.gif width="172" height="42" align="center" caption="Strangler Fig" link="http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/strangler.html"]] ||

=__BAMBUSA TULDA__= The bambusa tulda can be found the biome of south east asia.It often grows as an undergrowth scattered or in patches in the forest.It does very well in a moist environmet with a lot of rainfall.It can grow up to 40 feet.