Scientists discover Tessmannia princeps, a new tree species in Tanzania’s rainforest, possibly over 3,000 years old and ...

A team of botanists with members from Muse–Museo delle Scienze, Udzungwa Corridor LTD, Via Grazia Deledda and the National ...

Botanist Andrea Bianchi and local plant experts Aloyce Mwakisoma and his brother Ruben were exploring two tiny village forest ...

while some large rainforest trees can use nearly 1200 L of water in a single day! Essentially all of the water used by land plants is absorbed from the soil by roots. A root system consists of a ...

"We looked at almost half of all Australia's subtropical rainforest tree ... tubes for moving water from roots to leaves. "Others like Queensland's iconic bottle trees store water in their trunks ...

large roots have ridges which create a large surface area that help to support large trees. The spider monkey has long, strong limbs to help it to climb through the rainforest trees. The flying ...

The following adaptations allow plants to survive in the conditions of the rainforest. Lianas - these are woody vines that have roots in the ground but climb up the trees to reach the sunlight.