FW: "accidental epiphyte"

From: Don Burns donburns at macconnect.com> on 2000.06.17 at 01:07:02(4809) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:45:18 -0400 Subject: FW: "accidental epiphyte" To: +More CC: Mime-version: 1.0 Don, Would you please forward this on to Aroid-L? Thanks, Scott ---------- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:06:00 -0700 To: hyndman@aroid.org Subject: "accidental epiphyte" I am finishing an invited paper for the journal BIOTROPICA on the terminology of canopy biology. I am wondering whether there is such a thing as a vine (or similarly a 2ndary hemiepiphyte) that can be an "accidental epiphyte" by sprouting sometimes in the canopy say in the soil of a branch crotch, rather than on the ground. In flooded or innundated forests this might even be common, I should think. I'm hopeful you can send this question out to the aroid community in case anyone has seen examples. This would be a new and interesting type of behavior. I'll send the same e-mail to Don Burns in case you are not around. Would love any thoughts on this. best, mark Mark W. Moffett respond to: moffett@uclink4.berkeley.edu University of California at Berkeley, Integrative Biology

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