Houseplant
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A houseplant, also known as a pot plant, potted plant, or indoor plant, is an ornamental plant cultivated indoors for aesthetic or practical purposes. These plants are commonly found in homes, offices
An orchid kept as a houseplant on an indoor windowsill
"Flowers on the Windowsill", 1894
The earliest portrait of Charles Darwin, 1816, holding a potted houseplant
"Living walls", mass planted vertical gardens, emerged as a trend in 21st century interiors.
Epiphyte
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An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant or plant-like organism such as kelp. It derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water or from de
Houseplant
…air quality. Most houseplants are tropical or semi-tropical species, as they thrive in the warm, humid conditions often found indoors. Many of them are epiphytes (plants that grow on other plants), succulents (which store water in their leaves), or cacti, which are particularly well-suited to indoor environments…
Tillandsia bourgaei growing on an oak tree in Mexico
Epiphytes can grow on the trunks of trees or sometimes in the canopy of a tree
An epiphytic orchid on a tree in a Brazilian cloud forest
Clinging root of an orchid