Temperate Rainforest Scrapbook
Maple Tree Covered with Club MossesMany epiphytes are found in the temperate rainforests. Epiphytes are plants that grow on other plants. The maple trees have more epiphytes than any other tree and researchers cannot yet explain why. The maples here are covered with club mosses...

Tree Covered with Epiphytes...And other trees have ferns, lichen, and mosses hanging from their branches.

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