The plants of the rainforsets
Medicinal plants
The impact of the rainforest
Bromeliads
Strangler
http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/bromeliads.htmlMost stranglers are members of the fig family. The seed of the strangler fig starts life as an epiphyte high in the trees, borne by birds and monkeys which eat the fig fruit. The seedling fig sends down long roots to the ground from where it begins to surround the host tree. It grows quickly and eventually suffocates the host.By using an adult tree as its host, the strangler fig avoids competition for light and nutrients at ground level.
Epiphytes
Saprophytes
Promblems and solutions
There are many problems that the rainforest encounters. One of the biggest problems is that people cut down millions of trees each year. At the rate that lumberjacks are moving, in each hour of the day, 1,000 to 3,000 acres of the rainforest are destroyed. 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 acres are being destroyed each year.The lumberjacks cut down these trees for firewood, houses, and for other money making industries.