Epiphytes, plants such as orchids and mosses that grow in trees, draw nutrients from the air and create refuge for all sorts of other life forms. They are the foundation of forest canopy ...

Strangler fig, Ficus aurea, is a southern Florida native that can grow into a dreadful epiphyte.As a seedling it survives as an epiphyte and does not harm its host plant. As it grows, its roots ...

The structure of the vascular epiphyte community in the overstory (20-28 m) of a riverine tropical rain forest was studied with the aid of a large tower crane between April and December of 1997. The ...

Trees influence epiphyte and invertebrate communities. Dr. Mike Fay, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ...

The native resurrection fern is an epiphyte that lives on the branches and trunks of trees, especially live oaks. Epiphytes, such as the resurrection fern, are not parasitic and do not damage the ...

Strangler fig is a fascinating tree and American tropical native in south Florida producing a continuous food crop -- even as it kills its host.

Epiphyte Lab is a Pittsburgh-based practice that produces built work and design research, which sees architecture not as separate from its surrounding ecology but as an inherent part of it.