These darkness loving plants live inside of dead and decomposing trees branches and other rotting plant material.
Plants that live on the forest floor.
Only two per cent of sunlight gets through the thick canopy trees and understorey plants to reach the forest floor.
Another factor is animal predators it s a lot easier for animals to eat the leaves on the floor than the leaves up in the trees.
The understory layer could be described as the middle part of the flora system.
The majority of plants that grow on the forest floor are used by insects such as the madagascar hissing cockroach and the giant african millipede as food.
The plants that are able to survive in the low light conditions of the forest floor are adapted to warm moist environments and of course very little sunlight.
There is too little sunlight here for plants to grow.
The forest floor is generally dark and damp and is home to many plants insects amphibians spiders small mammals and lizards.
This fertile ground cover is important for nourishing the plants that are capable of surviving in the dark under layer of a forest.
This is a forest habitat for birds lizards snakes and large predatory cats.
Large leafed shrubs and saplings new trees grow in the patches of sunlight.
They include many types of mushrooms and other fungi.
The soil in a rainforest is nutrient poor and lacks things like calcium and magnesium and is essentially a wet desert but it does have elements that help to decompose plant matter that falls to the ground and is rich in carbon.
The forest floor is covered in a layer of decomposition known as detritus.
Dead leaves fallen from the plants in the layers above cover the ground.
The national aquarium in baltimore describes how these insects are some of the only animals that live on the rainforest floor along with ants and anteaters.
The forest floor is very dark in a rainforest and hence it is not the home to many plants.
As animals decompose along the forest floor nutrients seep into the soil and help feed plants that would otherwise be malnourished.
They feed on insects and tend to be elusive creatures.
Although principally composed of non living organic material the forest floor also teems with a wide variety of.
There are many forest birds that live on the forest floor of the rainforest.
Some of the birds included in the bird family dwelling on the forest floor are peafowls jungle fowls the common peacock the green peacock megapodes and bower birds.
