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Roots of a liana above a forest stream, Makokou, Gabon
      
  
     
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Metrosideros polymorpha, bunches of aerial roots, Hawai'i
      
  
     
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Metrosideros polymorpha aerial roots, Hawai'i
      
  
     
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Metrosideros polymorpha aerial roots close-up, Hawai'i
      
  
     
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Mucilaginous fluid protecting the root, Kukenan Tepui, Venezuela
      
  
     
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Rhodospatha wendlandii, mucus secreting root, La Selva, Costa Rica
      
  
     
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 Roots and establishment growth in an Impatiens cardiophylla germinating on a limestone rock, Khao Sam Roi Yot, Thailand
      
  
     
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Orchid roots on a trunk, Chiang Mai, Thailand
      
  
     
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Upwards growing roots of an epiphytic Orchid, Thailand
      
  
     
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Anthurium sp., epiphytic with upward roots, Osa, Costa Rica
      
  
     
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Hylocereus setaceus, articulated stem fixed by adventitious roots to the trunk bark, Inhotim, Minas Gerais
      
  
     
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Rhipsalis epiphytic with roots adhering to the host tree bark, Sierra dos Orgaos, Brazil
      
  
     
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Rhipsalis roots adhering to the host tree bark, Sierra dos Orgaos, Brazil
      
  
     
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Blakea sp., epiphytic with tuberous roots, Osa, Costa Rica
      
  
     
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Philodendron bipinnatifidum, anchoring and feeding roots, Curitiba, Brazil
      
  
     
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Philodendron bipinnatifidum roots at the base of a tree trunk, Sao Paulo, Brazil
      
  
     
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Schefflera épiphyte, base with adventitious roots embracing the tree trunk, Taroko, Taiwan
      
  
     
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An epiphytic Schefflera fixed by its anchoring roots at the top of a Palm stipe, Joinville, Brazil
      
  
     
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Pandanus stilt roots, Redang, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Uapaca staudtii, huge stilt roots in a freshwater swamp forest, Campo, Cameroon
      
  
     
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Xylopia sp. with stilt roots,  Presidente Figueiredo, Manaos, Amazonas, Brazil
      
  
     
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Stangling Ficus roots - Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ficus roots embracing a rock, Chumphon, Thailand
      
  
     
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Ficus roots and algae , rocks - Malaysia
      
  
     
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A Clusia with horizontal embracing roots having killed the host tree, Sierra dos Orgaos, Brazil
      
  
     
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Schefflera sp., horizontal anchoring roots, Penang, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Freycinetia sumatrana, adventitious anchoring and feeding roots arising from the stem bases, Kanching, Selangor, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ficus microcarpa root system along the PMQ stone wall at night, Hollywood road, Hong Kong
      
  
     
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Ficus microcarpa roots embracing a brick wall, detail, Hong Kong Peak
      
  
     
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Ficus callosa pillar roots, Cape Machado, Malacca, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ficus callosa pillar roots close up, Cape Machado, Malacca, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ficus altissima, cathedral anastomosing root network around the hole of the dead host tree trunk, Tangkoko, North Sulawesi
      
  
     
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Ficus altissima, cathedral anastomosing root network, host tree trunk dead long time ago, Tangkoko, Noth Sulawesi
      
  
     
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Ficus altissima, cathedral root network around the hollow place of the dead host tree trunk, Tangkoko, North Sulawesi
      
  
     
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Ficus altissima, central view of the anastomosing root network, host tree trunk dead long time ago, Tangkoko, Noth Sulawesi
      
  
     
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Ficus altissima, lateral view of the anastomosing root network, central host tree trunk dead long time ago, Tangkoko, Noth Sulawesi
      
  
     
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Piper sp. climbing on tree trunk with basal stolon axes acting likes stilt nutritious roots, Tangkoko, Sulawesi
      
  
     
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Piper sp., a climbing species emitting stolon axes creeping on forest soil, with adventitious roots, and becoming functionnally like roots for main stem, Tangkoko, Sulawesi
      
  
     
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Piper sp., a climbing species emitting stolon axes growing downwards on forest soil, and becoming functionnally like nutrition roots for the main climbing stem, Tangkoko, Sulawesi
      
  
     
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Piper guineense, vigorous male individual producing stolons up to one meter above its base, these stolons acting like stilt nutritious roots, Campo, Cameroon