Such plants are called epiphytes and in lowland tropical rainforests they may represent up to one fourth of all plant species.
Forest floor amazon rainforest plants.
The sunlight on the forest floor of the amazon rainforest is so low that few plant species can live there.
Strangler fig this tree begins to grow from a fig tree in the canopy and then shoots roots down to the floor of the forest to take permanent root.
Saprophytes found in the ground layer of the rainforest floor fungi that decompose plant life that lands on the ground layer.
The amazon rainforest is known for being the largest tropical rainforest in the world covering much of brazil peru colombia and other countries in south america.
The tropical rainforest floor layer or forest floor is the ground layer of this biome.
Tropical rainforests such as the amazon are found near the equator in central and south america africa southeast asia and australia.
The amazon rainforest is the largest tropical jungle in the world containing some of the most biodiverse plants species in the world.
Because of its strategic location the amazon rainforest is naturally a home to the world s unique and most diverse plant and animal species.
20 of the world s natural forest terrain is the amazon jungle itself.
Some plants have evolved to the point that they simply do not need to grow on the forest floor instead they live on other plants.
They can grow on trunks branches leaves as well as on top of other epiphytes.