Tropical Rainforest Plants Orchids

Orchids can be found throughout the world and can survive in different kind of habitats.

Tropical rainforest plants orchids. The orchid family consists of over 25000 species and around 110000 registered hybrids. The Australian Tropical Rain Forest Plants Edition 8 and the Australian Tropical Rainforest Orchids are interactive multiple-entry identification and information systems where the user decides which characters to choose based on the specimen in hand. The most common tree in the Amazon Rainforest is the açai Euterpe precatoria.

Most wild orchids species are native to tropical and subtropical forests in Africa Asia south and central Americas. Most species live in tropical rainforests but they can also be found close to the Arctic Circle. There can be up to three million seeds in a single orchid seedpod.

Most orchid species grow in tropical forests but others can be found in semi-desert regions near the seashore and in the tundra. The most common orchid genera are Phalaenopsis Cattleya Oncidium Dendrobium Vanda and Cymbidium. Orchid groups are both pantropical able to grow in different tropical countries and endemic only found in specific countries or habitats.

The orchid family is a group of very hardy plants that are very abundant in the wild. Orchids are very common plants in the tropical rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest itself is home to more than 40000 plant species.

At the pace of the current rainforest destruction it is estimated that 137 species are wiped out daily. Like in all tropical rainforests there are the tall trees vines and epiphytes shorter trees and tree ferns and orchids and other smaller plants on the forest floor. Ferns lichens mosses orchids and bromeliads are all epiphytes.

Some orchids grow on the forest floor on rocks or slopes with good drainage or on the banks of a small stream. A rainforest orchid. They use orchid fiber to make noken string bags.