The world s tropical rainforests are home to an incredible number of plants.
Rainforest forest floor plants.
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.
These darkness loving plants live inside of dead and decomposing trees branches and other rotting plant material.
The forest floor of primary tropical rainforest is rarely the thick tangled jungle of movies and adventure stories.
There are many types of plants that are only found in rainforests in tropical regions of the world.
The hot humid climate of the world s tropical regions provide ideal conditions for plant life.
Tropical rainforests such as the amazon are found near the equator in central and south america africa southeast asia and australia.
The tropical rainforest floor layer or forest floor is the ground layer of this biome.
On the forest floor the lack of light means that it is difficult for many species of plants to survive.
The amazon rainforest alone provides a habitat for over 40 000 plant species.
The floor is relatively clear of vegetation due to the deep darkness created by perhaps 100 feet 30 m of canopy vegetation above.
They include many types of mushrooms and other fungi.
It is estimated that these contain around 170 000 of the world s plant species.
This is the layer where.
Ground or forest floor layer it s very dark in this layer of the rainforest so there are very few plant species that can survive.
It is actually rather the opposite.