#air_plant__airplant__epiphyte__aerophyte__epiphytic_plant__epiphyticplant plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
supertype: #plant__flora__plant_life__plantlife a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
subtype: #waxflower__Clusia_insignis epiphytic clusia of British Guiana
subtype: #Spanish_moss__old_man's_beard__black_moss__long_moss__Tillandsia_usneoides dense festoons of greenish-gray hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
subtype: #aeschynanthus__aeschynanthu a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex
subtype: #lipstick_plant__Aeschynanthus_radicans epiphyte or creeping on rocks; Malaysian plant having somewhat fleshy leaves and bright red flowers
subtype: #hemiepiphyte__semiepiphyte a plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life
subtype: #strangler_tree__stranglertree__strangler an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree
subtype: #pitch_apple__strangler_fig__stranglerfig__Clusia_rosea__Clusia_major a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers
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