16) Epiphyte

Epiphyte is a great word, also adopted by Neal Stephenson in his 1999 book Cryptonomicon as the trademark name of a corporation running a data haven for anonymous banking, electronic money and digital gold currency to fund the Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP), whose main server is placed in a deep cave on an island near the Philippines archipelago.

Epiphytes are plants that use other plants as support or anchoring structure, they employ their roots only to attach themselves and acquire nutriments through air and rain. They are never parasitic, but in large number can suffocate their host. One thinks immediately of orchids and bromeliads, or other extraordinary plants, dangling from above, in a tropical forest. Instead they are everywhere, also in Tiergarten, appearing in thick assemblages of mosses and lichens. Some people say that they are a sign of good air and water. They certainly are full of resources and seem to emerge suddenly and out of nothing, accreting on trees, rocks and buildings.

Epiphyte is a great word, also adopted by Neal Stephenson in his 1999 book Cryptonomicon as the trademark name of a corporation running a data haven for anonymous banking, electronic money and digital gold currency to fund the Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP), whose main server is placed in a deep cave on an island near the Philippines archipelago.

Epiphytes are plants that use other plants as support or anchoring structure, they employ their roots only to attach themselves and acquire nutriments through air and rain. They are never parasitic, but in large number can suffocate their host. One thinks immediately of orchids and bromeliads, or other extraordinary plants, dangling from above, in a tropical forest. Instead they are everywhere, also in Tiergarten, appearing in thick assemblages of mosses and lichens. Some people say that they are a sign of good air and water. They certainly are full of resources and seem to emerge suddenly and out of nothing, accreting on trees, rocks and buildings.