Facts and Information about...... Botany!

For the people who don't know what botany is, it's a study of Plants.

The Amazon is wonderful place full of nature and extraordinary sights, full of plants and wildlife living, growing and having their lives. These are some facts:-First more than two thirds of the world's plant species are found in the tropical rainforests these plants are plants that provide shelter and food for rainforest animals as well as having a part to change our carbon dioxide into oxgen so that we can breath and live. These plants live in a warm environment(that usually has water around) that makes them adapt to different some like the orchids; have beautiful flowers adapted to attract the profusion of forest insects.

Competition at ground level for light and food has lead to evolution of plants which live on the branches of other plants, or even strangle large trees to fight for survival. The aerial plants often gather nourishment from the air itself using so-called 'air roots';. The humidity of the rainforest encourages such adaptations which would be impossible in most temperate forests with their much drier conditions. there are more than half a million plants in the whole of the rainforest, there are still even some that aren’t even discovered yet but lets go on a trip to learn about the most common ones.