On the Gulf Coast, live oaks often support many types of epiphytic plants (plants that grow on top of another plant but does not depend on it for nutrition) such as ... read more
thick bark ex: redwood, Douglas fur, epicormic sprouting: latent buds on truck open up after a fire on truck and branches, ex: pitch pine, coastal redwood, live oak, and eucalyptus trees, lignotubers: swelling btn the shoot and root have buds and reserve food. read more
Some California native plants are in rapid decline in their native habitat due to urban sprawl, agriculture, overgrazing, recreational impacts, pollution, and invasive non-native species (invasive exotics) colonization pressures (animals and other kingdoms of life, as well as plants). read more