Rainforest Plants
Know that rainforests contain an enormous variety of plants — towering kapok and Brazil nut trees, climbing vines called lianas, colourful orchids that grow on tree branches, giant water lilies, and huge leaves that funnel rainwater
What a learner can do afterwards
- Name at least three types of rainforest plant, such as kapok trees, lianas (climbing vines), and orchids
- Explain that rainforest plants grow very tall because they compete for sunlight
- Describe one unusual feature, such as orchids growing on tree branches or lianas climbing up trunks
1 · Read
Rainforests are packed with many kinds of plants, and some make foods you know, like bananas and chocolate. Giant trees tower over everything. Tiny orchids grow high on branches. Long vines wind up every trunk.
Mia looks up in the rainforest. She sees a giant kapok tree. Vines called lianas climb around its trunk. A small orchid blooms on a branch. The lianas climb to reach sunlight without growing thick trunks of their own.
Rainforest plants must race for sunlight. They grow tall very fast. Lianas climb trees instead of growing thick trunks.
Rainforest plants grow tall and strange to win the race for sunlight.
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