Plant Adaptations
- Created by: nokaneen
- Created on: 20-06-21 18:51
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- Plant Adaptations
- Butress Roots
- Gets nutrients from air and water, not soil
- Ensure tall trees are stable
- Ensure roots receive enough air
- Leaf structure
- Drip tips- tapered end of a leaf that ensures water 'rolls off' the leaf preventing it from being too wet and therefore rotting
- Flexible stems- allow plant to reach for light
- Lianas (woody vines)
- Roots are in the ground so they are able to access nutrients
- Climb trees for sunlight
- Epiphytes
- Live on surface of other plants and recieve nutrients from them
- Grow on trees for sunlight
- Butress Roots
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