Botanist

There are lots of plants throughout the world's rain forests. Many of these plants are great for making medicine! Orchid Orchids are flowering plants that come in different shapes, sizes, and colors. They attract birds and insects with their beautiful colors and wonderful smell! Liana Lianas are vines that live all over the rain forest. They link trees to each other and animals use them to move around from tree to tree. Tarzan used these vines to swing through the forest! Passionflower Passionflowers are colorful plants that attract butterflies and hummingbirds! Animals, birds, and people eat the passion fruit that grows on this plant.

 The strangler fig tree uses another tree to climb up to the sunlight. As they grow, they wrap around the old tree until it dies and only the strangler fig remains.