Daily humidity levels in the tropical wet forest are so high that some plants have evolved that grow on other plants, gathering their water from the rainfall and the air around them. What are these plants called?

a. saprophytes
b. caprophytes
c. epiphytes
d. neophytes


c. epiphytes

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