Click
here - for a list of plants found in the Park, prepared by staff and academic visitors.
(2-2017 ed.: conforms to APG IV) |
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Click here - for original list (with edits: checking of families & genera)
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Epiphytes
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Epiphytic ferns
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Epiphytes
grow on the outside of trees and other plants. They include mosses,
ferns and orchids.

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When
epiphytic orchids fall to the ground, they are doomed to die - then
(and only then) it is legitimate to harvest them for cultivation and
decoration ...
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Nearer
to the forest floor ... |
Under-storey
flowers |

As in many Asian
tropical forests, the Zingiberacae
are represented in Cat Tien - including: forest gingers, Zingiber
spp. such as Z.
zerumbet, Alpinia
spp. (the genus that includes the spice Galingal) and the delicate
Globba pendula.
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Bamboo
A
substantial proportion of the park is bamboo forest which, although
much less diverse than primary forest, does support a certain
amount of wildlife and hold the soil (thus protecting riparian
zones). This rather attractive 'bamboo archway' boarders the road
near the Thac Troi (Heaven) rapids.
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