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In the Amazon rainforest, you can discover an amazing variety of orchids. They thrive in them because they love a humid environment and a pleasant ambient temperature. They are epiphites. This means that they don't like their roots to go directly into nutritious soil. They prefer to settle on the bark of a tree. First, the seed from which a tiny plant with roots grows.

These roots settle on the bark and otherwise grow enormously. Orchids also do not parasitize on the tree.

They get the food they need from the air. With their green leaves and roots, they photosynthesize . For the rest, they get what is suitable for them from the moss that willingly builds up around them. They also find accidental remains of insects that land on them and fallen leaves that get entangled between their roots.

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