Epiphyte vs Photophyte - What's the difference?
epiphyte | photophyte |
(botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant.
* 1848 , John Lindley, A notice of some species of Rhododendron inhabiting Borneo'', ''Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society , Volume 3,
* 1893 , Natural Science: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress , Volume 3,
As nouns the difference between epiphyte and photophyte
is that epiphyte is (botany) a plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant while photophyte is (biology|rare) any epiphyte growing in a well-lit environment.epiphyte
English
(wikipedia epiphyte)Noun
(en noun)page 88,
- It has been suggested to me that these fine plants will not prove cultivable, because they are epiphytes'.The probability however is, that they do not require to be treated as ' epiphytes , and that, like orchids, they will grow better if committed judiciously to the earth.
page 185,
- The nature of the surface of a plant also determines the number and sort of Epiphytes which lodge on it.