a delightful home for a colony of ants move me coolio vix. under. our epiphytes that means they grow on other plants usually trees they have no contact with the ground and can't directly access nutrients in the soil so they're always at risk of malnutrition which they offset with the help of als some of the chambers have rough walls and in those chambers all kinds of waste are deposited and excrement the remains of prey and dead ends come on under tropical conditions that all breaks down quickly and is then evidently absorbed by the little protrusions that make the walls rough and deal with all of on the income one fish buffet on off to him. moving right along to another greenhouse we need another crafty plant. the our own is a family of flowering plant that pretends to be a tree. this is not a tree trunk but a huge long stem. european members of the family are modestly sized about 40 centimeters tall but their tropical cousins belonging to the genus amorphophallus are huge. ringback ringback the more follows the gas known to its friends as giant fo