Tropical Rainforest Plants Facts. Many of the tropical rainforest plants in this list are grown commercially. Some tropical rainforest areas can received over 260 inches of rain every year.
Epiphytes like orchids are plants that grow on other plants. Common types of tropical rainforest plants looking at the climatic conditions persisting in a rainforest might have helped you to predict the kind of vegetation that occurs in a rainforest. 80% of the flowers in the australian rainforests are not found anywhere else in the world.
The tropical rainforest contains far more species of plants and animals than any other biome.
A quarter of ingredients in modern medicines come from rainforest plants. Vanilla orchids grow like vines, climbing up other trees. Veiled stinkhorn fungi, found in tropical rainforests, smell like rotting food! ♦ today tropical rainforests cover about 6% of the worlds surface, this has been reduced from 14% since man starting destroying it.