Re: FW: "accidental epiphyte"
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- Subject: Re: FW: "accidental epiphyte"
- From: J* H*
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 10:37:45 -0500 (CDT)
Mark,
I have not personally witnessed any such "accidental epiphytic" aroid, but I
can refer you to a photo of such a cycad:
<http://www.plantapalm.com/vce/species/dioon_spinulosum.htm>. If this can
occur with the New World's largest cycad, I see no reason why this wouldn't
also happen with aroids.
Jody
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> From: "Dr. Mark W. Moffett" <moffett@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:06:00 -0700
> To: hyndman@aroid.org
> Subject: "accidental epiphyte"
>
> I am finishing an invited paper for the journal BIOTROPICA on the
> terminology of canopy biology. I am wondering whether there is such a
> thing as a vine (or similarly a 2ndary hemiepiphyte) that can be an
> "accidental epiphyte" by sprouting sometimes in the canopy say in the
> soil of a branch crotch, rather than on the ground. In flooded or
> innundated forests this might even be common, I should think.
>
> I'm hopeful you can send this question out to the aroid community in
> case anyone has seen examples. This would be a new and interesting type
> of behavior.
>
> I'll send the same e-mail to Don Burns in case you are not around.
> Would love any thoughts on this.
>
> best,
>
> mark
>
> Mark W. Moffett
> respond to: moffett@uclink4.berkeley.edu
> University of California at Berkeley, Integrative Biology
