Noun:

தொற்றிப் படரும் பயிர்,

epiphyte's Usage Examples:

pendulous epiphytes occur in the latter genus.

A large number of algae again live as epiphytes or endophytes.

In order that a Fungus may enter a plant, it must be able to overcome not merely the resistance of cell-walls, but that of the living protoplasm; if it cannot do this, it must remain outside as a mere epiphyte, e.

But why certain Fucaceae favour certain zones in the littoral region, why certain epiphytes are confined to certain hosts, why Red and Brown Algae are not better represented in fresh water or Green Algae in salt, - these are problems to which it is difficult to find a ready answer.

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.

) germinate and develop a loose mycelium on living leaves, but only enter and destroy the tissues after the leaf has fallen; in some cases, however, these saprophytic epiphytes can do harm by intercepting light and air from the leaf (Fumago, 'c.

The vegetation is mostly of a tropical Indo-Malayan character - thick jungle with great trees covered with creepers and epiphytes.

Its forests are not composed of one or a few dominating species, as in the cold temperate zone, but of countless genera and species closely interwoven together - a confused mass of giant trees, lianas and epiphytes struggling to reach the sunlight.

8 water plants, while many, especially those which live as epiphytes, are more or less xerophytic.

In epiphytic forms the rhizoids of the epiphyte often penetrate into the tissue of the host, and certain epiphytes are not known to occur excepting in connexion with a certain host; but to what extent, if any, there is a partial parasitism in these cases has not been ascertained.

This struggle for existence has completely changed the habits of some plants, turning the palm and the cactus into climbers, and even some normal species into epiphytes.

Coelogyninae, 7 genera, mostly epiphytes, and inhabitants of tropical Asia.

Plants as agents of damage and disease may be divided into those larger forms which as weeds, epiphytes and so forth, do injury by dominating and shading more delicate species, or by gradually exhausting the soil, 'c.

Synonyms:

old man's beard, strangler tree, flora, waxflower, Tillandsia usneoides, black moss, long moss, air plant, semiepiphyte, strangler, aerophyte, Spanish moss, plant, Clusia insignis, hemiepiphyte, plant life, epiphytic plant, aeschynanthus,

Antonyms:

fauna,