The forests here were damp and tropical so far as herbaceous underwoods were concerned, the trees were loaded with mosses chiefly pendulous Neckerae and Hypnea, as well as the rocks, Epiphytes were common.
The ridge in question may be recognised by its large rocks which are covered with Epiphytes Mosses, etc.
The ulterior object of the ladies who patronize these pretty epiphytes is to get them married; partly from personal kindness, partly from the pleasure all women have in bringing about a marriage that does not interfere with themselves.
Delamare Deboutteville (1948) made a quantitative study of the animal population in suspended soil that had accumulated between the roots of forest epiphytes of the lower Ivory Coast.
We refer to these epiphytes under one heading, as there can be but little doubt that the latter is a more advanced state of the former.
Whether these epiphytes are the causes of the so-called blighted conditions, or merely their effects, is a subject upon which no little discussion has been expended.
With every inch of space occupied by plants, the very epiphytes often having on their leaves still smaller plants, we see here what nature will produce when the maximum conditions for plant growth are so nearly perfect.
Besides the bewildering tangle caused by these lianes, the rain forest is further impeded by hosts of epiphytes or plants that are mechanically attached to tree trunks, branches, or anything else that will raise them to the light.
Of all the plants of such regions the epiphytes are the most light-demanding.
Innumerable epiphytes covered the limbs, and even grew on the roughened trunks.
Masses of epiphytes grew both on the dead trees and the living; some had huge leaves like elephants' ears.
And where there is air and sunshine, these lianas, which often form bights like ropes, are loaded with epiphytes of all kinds, and decorated with the rarest and most beautiful orchids.
In a glen hard by is a giant ceiba, transformed, by the countless number of creepers and epiphytes to which it has given hospitality, into a vast air-garden.
Frequently these were joined by delicate festoons of liana, many of which were weighted down with orchids and epiphytes of the rarest beauty and fragrance.
I saw more of the shrubs and epiphytes than I have yet done from the altitude of an elephant's back.
These splendid orchids and other epiphytes grow singly.
Lianas hurry up to the light and sunshine, and innumerableepiphytes perch themselves high up on the branches.
Climbing ferns and vanilla cling to the trunks, and a thousand epiphytes perch themselves on the branches.
Several other birds in the forest suspend their nests from the small but tough air roots that hang down from the epiphytes growing on the branches, where they often look like a natural bunch of moss growing on them.
Many epiphytes grew on the oaks, amongst which the mottled yellow flower of an orchid hung down in spikes six feet long.
No lianas hang from the trees, and, excepting a few narrow-leaved Tillandsias, no epiphytes nestle on the branches and trunks.
For Cattleya and Laelia hybrids and a large number of epiphytes grown with them the compost is made by tearing up the materials with the hand, or in some other way which will not break the fibres very much.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epiphytes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
