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Old 20-01-2005, 10:36 AM
Cereus-validus...
 
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Do always expect me to do your homework for you, you lazy peter puller?

Of course there would be many more epiphytes growin in more humid regions
because there are many more trees to be found there.

There are examples of Tillandsia species growing epiphytically on
Neobuxbaumia.

I even recall seeing a picture of an Opuntia growing epiphytically on a
Carnegiea in Arizona.




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"Sean Houtman" wrote in message
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"Cereus-validus..." wrote in
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Make up your mind, sphagnum.

The point you keep missing is that being an epiphyte has nothing
at all to do with climate.

When you go off making absurd generalities expect to be called on
it.


Here is your call.

There are very few epiphytes in desert climates, they exist, but
they are rare. Wet climates produce many more species and numbers of
epiphytes.

Sean


This makes sense, because epiphytes require rain and moisture from the
air.
Lacking roots can be a problem therefore.

Unless there are epiphitic cacti, growing on other cacti.
Which in turn support yet another smaller epiphitic cactus.... and so on
ad
infinitum.

This humble writer challenges Cereus.Epiphytum.XeroCactumHangAboutum to
give
a pictorial example.........