Which plant has a pool?

Bromeliads are epiphytic plants that live on tropical trees. Plants take water not with roots, but with leaves: when it rains, moisture accumulates in the depression between them.

Tree frogs are happy to splash around in such "pools." The tips of the leaves of many tropical plants are omitted - so that water drains from them.

Creepers are climbing plants that live on trees in the jungle. Not all epiphytes take water in leaves. The long thin roots of orchids hang from the branches and absorb water from the humid air.

What plant smothers in its "embrace"?

Golden ficus is called a "strangler" - and for good reason! Getting on the branches of other trees, its seeds germinate there. The roots of the plant become longer, they wrap themselves around branches and trunk, go down and go into the ground. Now the ficus sucks out all the nutrients from the soil, and the tree dies “from hunger”.