#Lithophyte
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minamotif.bsky.social
Lithophyte on top of the world, having the time of it’s life
#lithophyte #treecore #forestcore #bonsai #inkart
August 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
jrbhaiku.bsky.social
lithophyte growing
perching on a mountain ridge
roots clinging to rocks

#DailyHaikuPrompt (mountains, roots)
#haiku
A lithophyte ‘rock tree’ growing on mountain rocks.
June 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
minamotif.bsky.social
A lithophyte hanging on for dear life! #inkart #forestillustration #lineart #lithophyte #forestcore #natureart #naturedrawing
July 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
irishrainforest.bsky.social
Flowering St.Patrick's cabbage growing on bare rock as a lithophyte.

The super moist conditions of rainforest make this possible for a wonderful variety of flora.
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August 6, 2024 at 6:46 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
Fog- & dew-catching plants occur outside SW Africa. For example, the extremely fuzzy leaves of Tillandsia tectorum harvest fog from the dry parts of Peru & Ecuador, where it is a lithophyte/epiphyte. 📷: jhanyp90 CCBYNC4 #Bromeliaceae #fog #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a lithophytic rosette bromeliad with narrow leaves covered with long, silvery hairs.
May 28, 2026 at 11:50 AM
gavingatenby.bsky.social
Spring is sprung! Sydney Rock Orchid (Dendrobium speciosum), which grows as an epiphyte on trees or a lithophyte on rocks. A hardy and popular species found along the east coast of Aust, producing showy racemes of creamy-white flowers in spring. #WildOz #orchids #AustralianWildflowers
September 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
This rock is doing such a good job making his part of the world better. Be like the rock! Good rock.

P.S. a lithophyte is a plant that doesn't grow in soil, but on the surface of a rock. Compare with "epiphyte".

#nativeplants 🌱
A boulder covered in lithophytic plants like moss, ferns, and a few forbs.
August 30, 2024 at 7:52 PM
haggewoods.bsky.social
Polypodium vulgare, Common Polypody, hardy, wintergreen, opportunist - grows as a lithophyte (on rocks and stone) and an epiphyte (on trees) - exploits those niches wherever it can.
#Ferns #WallFlora
December 19, 2023 at 4:53 PM
phantomsspleen.bsky.social
Grounded

You gave me a myth
volant
tempting and believable
from your lips. After
the initial lift you left me
hanging
like a Lithophyte, obligate
on a cliff, rocked
but
never quite falling

#vss365 #volant
#poetry
December 11, 2023 at 7:42 AM
craftbeerguy.bsky.social
This holiday cactus has been around for a few years now. Flowers every spring and fall / winter like clockwork.
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Schlumbergera
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#schlumbergera #truncata | #false #christmascactus | #holiday #cactus | #epiphyte | #lithophyte | #plants | #indoor #plants 🪴
December 17, 2024 at 7:30 PM
cfollicularis.bsky.social
This seed-grown Pinguicula emarginata from my collection is currently in bloom!

#PinguiculaEmarginata #Butterwort #CarnivorousPlants #MexicanPinguicula #SeedGrown #Lithophyte #CloudForestFlora #FromSeedToFlower #PlantCollectors
May 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
fernspotting.bsky.social
Marginal Wood Fern (Dryopteris marginalis) showing lithophytic range on a gorge wall, meters above a coldwater river.

#fernspotted #ferns #piedmont #lithophyte
Distant, full plant view of a Marginal Wood Fern extending its fronds upward and thriving on a steep, westward-facing gorge wall.
May 30, 2026 at 6:12 PM
pur0rb.bsky.social
I'm normal
#Wikipedia #WikiRace
a wikirace session from 'lithophyte' to 'castanets'
May 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
fernspotting.bsky.social
Rock Polypody (Polypodium virginium) catching early sunlight on a cliff overlooking a piedmont gorge.

#fernspotted #ferns #lithophyte #piedmont
Full view of several Rock Polypody fronds reflecting intense light from an early sun. Their bright mid-green glows, enabling clear view of robust sori remaining from last season. The structure of the rock in this gorge casts broad shadows, causing first light for this plant after 9:00am.
May 24, 2026 at 12:25 PM
fernspotting.bsky.social
This Ebony Spleenwort (Asplenium platyneuron) appears thriving on a vertical gorge wall, meters above a cold-water river.

#fernspotted #ferns #lithophyte #piedmont
Full-plant view of Ebony Spleenwort extending out and up from a vertical rock wall. Its fertile fronds reach high, while the vegetative fronds stay close to its base. Distant, full-plant view of Ebony Spleenwort living on a vertical rock wall beneath a cliff.
June 3, 2026 at 1:18 AM
fernleaf07.bsky.social
Blue Strap Fern, Microsorum steerei
UConn Storres Greehouses, Stores, CT, USA

#fern #ferns #fernFriday
Blue Strap Fern, Microsorum steerei Origin: Thailand, southern China, Vietnam Blue Strap fern is an ephiphyte or lithophyte that is found growing on limestone hills in the pennisula of Thailand. This fern is remarkable blue iridescence is thought to enable the selective absorption of light. Blue Strap Fern, Microsorum steerei
February 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
fernspotting.bsky.social
Unexpected lithophyte!
June 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
I grew up with large plants of Philodendron bipinnatifidum in the front yard. I was fascinated by their ropey roots. In its natural habitat, in South America, it is a lithophyte, growing in dry, exposed areas (not unlike the front yard). #Araceae #TropicalBotany #aroids #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
Close-up photo of the reclining stem of this Philodendron. The elliptical leaf-scars are outlined with brown scales. Adventitious roots, as thick as your thumb, loop and creep along the ground.
July 30, 2024 at 7:40 PM
fernspotting.bsky.social
Appalachian Polypody or Appalachian Rock Cap Fern (Polypodium appalachianum)

#fernspotted #ferns #lithophyte #piedmont #spore
Very close view of the undersides of mid-green Appalachian Polypody leaflets. Bright yellow, with puffy sponge-like texture, the proportionally large sori of this specimen are comprised of sporangia that seem to have already released many/most spores. This plant was found in a large Appalachian Polypody cluster growing on a vertical, north-facing rock surface, located meters away from a coldwater river.
June 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM
janpsolivagant.bsky.social
I particularly love the Flamethrower piece - marvellous imagery! And the lithophyte haiku! And Congratulations! 🙏🏆
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
djzaber.bsky.social
Lichen/bryophyte lithophyte complex on bedrock. St. Louis Co., Minnesota, USA. Adapted to more extreme microsite conditions (e.g. moisture, temperature etc). Hopefully these species have the adaptive genetic flexibility to survive a more extreme world. 🧪
files.dnr.state.mn.us/natural_reso...
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
hel.eurosky.social
The lithophyte way, rocks.
hel.eurosky.social Hel Eline @hel.eurosky.social · Aug 20
Birch: Epiphytic? Is that like a litophytic lifestyle, but with friends?
August 20, 2026 at 8:24 AM
wordbot.bsky.social
Word of the Hour: Lithophyte - A hard or stony plantlike organism as the gorgonians corals and corallines esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
July 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
chambers.nicknicknicknick.net
hm.

"A Polenta for the Lithophyte-Problem"

*sips coffee*
June 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
amyellsworth.bsky.social
Speed Poem #1
Epiphyte

Imagine being an epiphyte
Epi meaning above
I love nothing I need nothing
I get my smoothies & lasagna from breathing atoms
Or better yet a lithophyte
Lover of rocks
A lithophile
I cling to my rock and hum
That is all I have to do
In the world
Just sit here and phyte
November 23, 2024 at 3:17 PM