| 单词 | epiphyte |
| 例句 | Vines wrapped the pillars, and epiphytes clung to the ceiling like anemones, or roosting butterflies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Like the ones in Singapore, the garden’s supertrees were designed to demonstrate a particularly spectacular class of specimens, even for the tropics: epiphytes, or plants that grow without soil, on trees. Seduced by Singapore’s Charismatic Orchids 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z As Gregory Augustine rowed us up the Indian River near Portsmouth, he pointed out elephant-ear epiphytes and seaside hibiscus, whose flowers turn from yellow to orange as they age. Waterfalls, Rivers and Rain Forest on Dominica 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The plant is an epiphyte, meaning it grows symbiotically on a host tree. Got 20 minutes and 30 bucks? Warm up your home with a DIY wall-mounted fern. 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z I think it’s cool that the plant is an epiphyte that lives off the air rather than a parasite that kills the gracious oaks it tends to hang from. A Sucker for Spanish Moss 2010-09-03T22:25:00Z Growing on and degrading rocks, lichens contribute to the creation of soil, and growing as epiphytes on trees they are innocuous to the host, which is merely used as a substrate. New to Nature No 102: Lobariella sipmanii 2013-04-27T23:05:01Z The lithophytes live on rock, and terrestrial orchids hug the ground, while the epiphytes grab hold of tree branches in their search for water, light and sustenance. ‘Orchidelirium’ Explodes With Color at New York Botanical Garden 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The 15-acre garden, on Sarasota Bay, was established in 1971 as the only botanical garden in the world focused solely on the study of epiphytes, which include many orchid species. 6 Great Gardens to Visit in Florida 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z But it is a spectrum of exposure; orchids and other epiphytes find a modicum of light in the tree branches, and those on the forest floor are built for gloom. Everyone’s freaking out about the eclipse. But gardeners know the sun’s true wonder. 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Arranged into a seemingly pulsing orb, masses of epiphyte seeds conjure an entire universe. Review | In the galleries: ‘Archiving Eden’ exhibition sprouts interest with macro photos 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z The air plants, or epiphytes like some ferns, orchids and bromeliads that grow nonparasitically on the trees, are touchy about being touched. Pursuits: ‘Walking the Water’ in the Everglades 2013-08-09T19:47:13Z The study examined 255 previous papers on ecological disturbances impacting epiphytes in 58 countries. Epiphytes, amazing plants like moss and bromeliads found in trees, face growing threats 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Orchids are epiphytes that form small seeds without much storage to sustain germination and growth. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Younger trees’ trunk diameter increases quickly during periods of rapid growth, so the epiphytes are still present but spread out and less obvious. What to do when something weird is growing on tree bark 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z The color ranges from gray violet to maroon and cinnamon, hues often overtaken by the bright chartreuse of mosses and other epiphytes. A Seattle artist’s inspired guide to our majestic ‘Trees of the West’ 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis is an epiphyte - a plant that grows on another plant but gets its own nutrients from the surrounding air and rainwater. Cambridge orchid in bloom smells like rotting cabbage 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z "Underneath these live epiphytes, as they die and decompose, they actually construct an arboreal soil…They have a tremendous capacity for holding onto nutrients and water," she continued. Epiphytes, amazing plants like moss and bromeliads found in trees, face growing threats 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Other species are epiphytes: plants that grow on other plants that serve as a physical support. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of these organisms can be classified as epiphytes, or simply put, things that live on other things. What to do when something weird is growing on tree bark 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z You can’t walk past it without admiring its girth and height and the mosses and epiphytes brightening its dark, almost Gothic presence. A Seattle artist’s inspired guide to our majestic ‘Trees of the West’ 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z For instance, epiphytes are plants that grow on other plants, which typically are not harmed. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Her new review found that forest fragmentation was the most frequently cited disturbance agent, followed by climate change, epiphyte harvesting, extreme events, agriculture, hurricanes and forestry activities. Epiphytes, amazing plants like moss and bromeliads found in trees, face growing threats 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Many epiphytes have specialized tissues that enable them to efficiently capture and store water. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z These epiphytes ranged in texture and color, from the orange moss known as Antitrichia curtipendula to the light-green lichens belonging to the genus Usnea, known more commonly as old man’s beard and witches’ hair, respectively. This tree has stood here for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500? An epiphyte like the Monstera deliciosa, the staghorn fern has its roots attach to tree trunks and branches in tropical forests, and it gets its nutrients from the water and air. 10 low-maintenance houseplants you are very unlikely to kill 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Xerophytes and epiphytes often have a thick covering of trichomes or of stomata that are sunken below the leaf’s surface. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z To reduce harm to epiphytes, land managers should take specific actions, such as keeping large, old trees in forestry operations, clearing only small areas to harvest epiphytes and protecting large sections of forests. Epiphytes, amazing plants like moss and bromeliads found in trees, face growing threats 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z There are so many epiphytes the trunk is nearly obscured. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z As an epiphyte plant, the Monstera deliciosa gets its nutrients from the air and water in the rainforest. 10 low-maintenance houseplants you are very unlikely to kill 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z “It’s plant torture,” he says, “because they’re epiphytes — they grow without soil and need good air circulation to thrive.” Why air plants are the solution to all your design woes 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Known as epiphytes – plants that grow on other plants – they are Nadkarni’s special field of scientific research, omnipresent in the unique ecosystem of Costa Rica’s montane cloud forest. Head in the clouds: the woman scaling fresh climate change heights 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z They should also use epiphytes as indicators to determine how healthy an environment is and involve local communities in forest management. Epiphytes, amazing plants like moss and bromeliads found in trees, face growing threats 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z The league asked the researchers to conduct an epiphyte survey of redwood communities at the southern end of the tree range. In Towering Redwoods, an Abundance of Tiny, Unseen Life 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z An epiphyte like the Monstera deliciosa, the staghorn fern’s roots attach to tree trunks and branches in tropical forests, and it gets its nutrients from the water and air. 10 low-maintenance houseplants you are very unlikely to kill 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z This shift opened up many new areas to colonize and new environmental conditions; the rate of net diversification increased 8.8% for epiphytes. Orchids’ dazzling diversity explained 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Epiphyte provides banks and financial institutions with the expertise and tools to increase margins and provide new services, by taking advantage of of cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation. http://www.epiphyte.us/ The World's Next 10 Big Fintech Stars 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Nadkarni's latest paper reviews the available science on epiphyte communities and categorizes the drivers and consequences of and societal responses to drought, wind, insects, wildfire, logging and other disturbances. Epiphytes, amazing plants like moss and bromeliads found in trees, face growing threats 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Shrouded in the foggy jungle canopy hundreds of feet above ground, Professor Gotsch’s students are using sensors to track the movement of moisture through epiphytes, or “air plants,” living among the branches. Jumpstarting American Innovation Through Student Research 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z It is an epiphyte, or , with aerial roots which attach to host trees, enabling it to climb. Why cheese plants are full of holes 2013-01-18T03:56:49Z By 35 million years ago, many had become epiphytes, plants that cling to trees. Orchids’ dazzling diversity explained 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z In the low canyons Bursera, Ceiba, and Psidium, draped with lianas and various epiphytes, can be found. The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico 2012-04-06T02:00:23.953Z In the future, Nadkarni concluded, it's crucial to share these findings with policymakers and land managers, so we can work together to protect epiphytes and the valuable roles they play in our forests. Epiphytes, amazing plants like moss and bromeliads found in trees, face growing threats 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z As climate change lifts the average altitude of tropical clouds, the epiphytes and the microhabitats they provide for other important organisms become more vulnerable. Jumpstarting American Innovation Through Student Research 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Some blades of the confettilike seaweed are bleached white by the sun, and the seaweed is acting as an epiphyte, growing on other species of algae in the tide pools. Scientist at Work Blog: A Community's Hopes for Self-Sufficiency 2012-04-05T19:40:49Z This past November researchers published the first orchid genome, for the tropical epiphyte Phalaenopsis equestris. Orchids’ dazzling diversity explained 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Those which are lodged upon trees, but not parasitic on them, are epiphytes. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The greater number of them are epiphytes or plants that grow on others without absorbing nourishment from them, and heat and moisture afford all or nearly all the nourishment they require. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z I have attempted to categorize species as to microhabitats within the arboreal habitat; in so doing, I recognize four subdivisions—bushes, tree trunks, tree tops, and epiphytes. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Rainforests of Southern El Peten, Guatemala 2011-12-25T03:00:10.957Z Vines looped across the front of green, binding the forest with cordage, and the roots of epiphytes dropped from upper boughs, like hanks of twine. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z When we reach a suitable place we start collecting plants using hand pruners and, for the tall trees and epiphytes, pruning shears mounted atop telescopic poles. Scientist at Work Blog: Discovery and Conservation of Plants 2011-08-25T21:56:03Z A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z These "supertrees," under construction in Singapore, are vertical gardens, ranging from 75 to 150 feet in height and embedded with tropical flowering climbers, ferns and epiphytes. The Best Pictures of the Week 2011-07-01T09:15:00Z Flora.—The vegetation is mostly of a tropical Indo-Malayan character—thick jungle with great trees covered with creepers and epiphytes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The density of the forest is greatly augmented by the cip�s, or lianas, which overgrow the largest trees to their tops, and by a profusion of epiphytes which cover the highest branches. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" They are epiphytes, and should be grown in the intermediate house. Orchids It is the trees of older and loftier growth that exhibit the rank luxuriance of these wonderful epiphytes in the most striking manner. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series But of course they could not have known how to begin growing orchids, even though they obtained them—I speak of epiphytes and foreign species, naturally. The Woodlands Orchids Shrubby geraniums grow twelve or fifteen feet high, and some vacciniums grow as epiphytes on the trunks of trees. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras The analysis of a plant-community usually reveals one or more of the kinds of symbiosis as illustrated by parasites, saprophytes, epiphytes, and the like. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Miltonias are compact-growing South American epiphytes, to be grown in pans elevated in a sheltered corner of the intermediate house. Orchids The epiphyte Orchids are also magnificent in beauty. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series The black taxodiums, standing thickly, usurped the ground, their umbellated crowns covered with hoary epiphytes, whose pendulous drapery shut out the sun, that would otherwise have nourished on that rich soil a luxuriant herbaceous vegetation. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Yet here is my apple-tree supporting epiphytes and parasites and insects, protector and nurse of a goodly company; and birds nest on the branches thereof. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 And after a little experimenting, the epiphyte finally ceases to do anything for its own support, thenceforth drawing all its supplies ready-made from the sap of its host. Natural Law in the Spiritual World All the species are intermediate-house plants, requiring the ordinary potting material for epiphytes. Orchids The fig-trees, which are among the most gigantic of the tropical forest-trees, and which support an immense profusion of epiphytes, are themselves frequently parasitic and epiphyte in their early condition. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series One genus, Vanilla, is a twining epiphyte; the fruit of this plant furnishes the vanilla of commerce. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses In Dendroceros, which grows as an epiphyte in the tropics, the thallus has a well-defined midrib and broad wings composed of a single layer of cells. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Then came the brabs and palms, fan-, cocoa-, oil-, and bamboo-, with their trunks turned to nurseries of epiphytes and air-plants. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Aërides, Saccolabiums, and Vandas seem to be exceptions, as they represent the highest development of the epiphyte. Orchids It is an epiphyte, being always found growing, like the Orchids, among mosses and ferns, upon the trunks of large trees, especially oaks and magnolias, at an elevation of from seven to ten thousand feet. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series Some epiphytes, which most of the year look to the casual observer like so many tufts of hay on the branches, produce at certain seasons extremely pretty flowers. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan The trees, however, have not assumed a northern character; their trunks are covered with epiphytes. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries But it is the trees of older and loftier growth that exhibit the rank luxuriance of these wonderful epiphytes in the most striking manner. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 Phyllocactuses are therefore epiphytes when in a wild state, but under cultivation with us, they thrive best when planted in pots or in baskets—the latter method being adapted for one or two smaller kinds. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation The boughs were often breaking down with the bulbs of such epiphytes; but as yet it was early in the season, and only here and there one was in flower. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Masses of epiphytes grew both on the dead trees and the living; some had huge leaves like elephants' ears. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Here are the poison and its antidote,—the monster tree and its miniature epiphyte,—the plant that astonishes by its magnitude, and the one that delights us by its minuteness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Here and there a splash of white or crimson marked the blooming of some trailing epiphyte. The Island of Doctor Moreau One is purely an epiphyte, growing attached to a tree like many of the orchids. Tropic Days Unfortunately with his epiphytes he brought down whole colonies of ants, and the Jamaican ant is a most pugnacious insect with abnormal biting powers. Here, There and Everywhere Innumerable epiphytes covered the limbs, and even grew on the roughened trunks. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Lianas hurry up to the light and sunshine, and innumerable epiphytes perch themselves high up on the branches. The Naturalist in Nicaragua Mr. Carruthers has carefully examined the original specimen in the Botanical Museum, Edinburgh, and thinks it may have been an epiphyte. The Student's Elements of Geology In the day's journey I counted one hundred and twenty-six differing trees and shrubs, fifty-three trailers, seventeen epiphytes, and twenty-eight ferns. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Long, sinuous lianas, often queerly braided, hang down from the trees; epiphytes and various parasitic growths add their strange green and red to the complex variety of vegetation. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America It is well known that plants with xerophytic characteristics are not confined to dry climates; it is only necessary to mention halophytes, alpine plants and certain epiphytes. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 I listened with pleasure to the last hoarse cries of the mot-mots, and tried to impress on my memory the curious forms of vegetation—the palms, the gigantic arums, the tangled lianas, and perching epiphytes. The Naturalist in Nicaragua Burbidge as being a true epiphyte on the stems of Sphagnum. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 I saw more of the shrubs and epiphytes than I have yet done from the altitude of an elephant's back. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither A few hours beyond Jahi we passed the limits of cultivation, and had the beautiful virgin forest coming down to the water's edge, with its palms and creepers, its noble trees, its ferns, and epiphytes. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 The foot-road to the houses was a narrow, sandy alley, bordered by trees of stupendous height, overrun with creepers, and having an unusual number of long air-roots dangling from the epiphytes on their branches. The Naturalist on the River Amazons Many epiphytes grew on the oaks, amongst which the mottled yellow flower of an orchid hung down in spikes six feet long. The Naturalist in Nicaragua The same difficulty may have existed in the case of the herbaceous Miadesmia, if, as Miss Benson conjectures, it was an epiphyte. Darwin and Modern Science These splendid orchids and other epiphytes grow singly. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither No lianas hang from the trees, and, excepting a few narrow-leaved Tillandsias, no epiphytes nestle on the branches and trunks. The Naturalist in Nicaragua |
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