pneumatophore

Any part of the plant above the ground can be invaded, although it is more common on the ears, the tassels and the nodes than it is on the leaves, the internodes and aerial roots.

In its native Mexico, the vanilla orchid grows out of the ground even as its aerial roots imbibe water and minerals from the tropical atmosphere.

Don't be tempted to cut off the roots growing outside the pot, as they are aerial roots which absorb moisture from the air, keeping the plant healthy.

This relative of the mophead hydrangeas is a sprawler that can extend to 80ft and cling to its host through aerial roots.

association between apogeotropic aerial roots, mycorrhizas and

IF you've ivy creeping up your walls, clip out aerial roots and hack it to bits in spring.

Climbing plants can grasp by twining, climbing, and catching with aerial roots or thorns or by tendrils.

The plant has aerial roots, which cause it to cling to neighboring trees for support and tower to a height that can top 30 feet.

Ivy's self-clinging aerial roots are very short and just stick on, rather like Velcro.

So too was the villainous strangler fig with its network of aerial roots wrapped around an innocent red carabeen.

All mangroves, including Rhizophora mangle, produce aerial roots that function primarily in gas exchange (Scholander et al.

For example, exotics of the Ficus family, such as weeping figs and banyan trees, blew over because their aerial roots had been removed.

The mangroves' specially-adapted aerial roots and salt-filtering tap roots enable these trees to occupy the fluctuating intertidal zones where other plants cannot survive.

Most tropical orchids are epiphytic-that is, rather than growing in soil, they attach to trees or other support systems by means of aerial roots.

The stems have fibrous aerial roots that exude a sticky resin enabling the plant to climb.