Rainforest- Understory Layer By: Felicity Clemente

Task 1 Rainforest of the World

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The Understory Layer

The Understory layer has a hot, damp climate with still air. The Understory has many plants although it only has 2-5% of sunlight because the canopy layer blocks the sunlight going through. The tiny amount of sunlight encourages plants to have smarter ways of living in fewer sunlight. The plants of the understory hardly goes higher than twelve feet

Plants in the Understory Layer

There are several plants in the understory, most of them like:

Philodendron Prayer Plant Peace Lily

And much more, these plants can grow in the understory layer or you living room because of the amount of sunlight these absorb.

Animals in the Understory Layer

Many of the animals in the understory layer use camouflage, their skin tone and pattern helps them to camouflage.

But not all animals hide, some are use to being exposed or their skin scares away people because of the poison in their skin, like the poison vine butterfly their colored wings warns the birds not to eat them.

Flora

There are much more plants in the understory like:

Blue tailed Iguana

Boa Constrictor

Coatimundi

Tree Frog

Spider Monkey

Leaf Cutter Ants

Heliconia Butterfly

Fruit Bat

Fauna

There are much more animals in the understory like:Liana

Vines

Downy Dodder Laurel

Climbing Lignum

Coast Swainson

Pea

Small Leaf Clematis

Melicope Rubra