Photos of Orchid roots
Orchid growers have to provide support for the plant, without allowing the roots to stay Photo of Orchid roots, which have a spongy surface that soaks up water quicklywet. Water is stored in their thickened leaves and stems so they can survive dry periods.
Since they do not have a continuous supply of water, their roots have a spongy coating that quickly soaks up the orchid delivery water from periodic rain or dew. These epiphytes live attached to other plants or structures that simply provide a place of attachment, but no water or nutrients. Most orchids originally came from the tropics, Debdrobium Eckapol ‘Big Panda’ primarily in the cloud forests, where they lived as epiphytes.
