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Saprophytes are fungi and live of dead and decaying matter, not live plant material

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What are the plants that are not green?

Saprophytes


What do you understand by saprophytes?

Saprophytes are the plants which derive their food from the dead and decaying organic matter


What are the plants that are not green called?

Saprophytes


What is different between scavenger and saprophytes?

scavengers can highly concave animals or plants but saprophytes are microorganisms


Are mushroom parasites or saprophytes?

They are saprophytes because they live on other decaying matter for their food


What are facts about saprophytes?

Saprophytes are those plants which grow and live on dead and decaying organic matter of animals and plants. Many bacteria and fungi have this mode of nutri­tion. Saprophytes are of great economic importance because the convert complex organic substance of dead organisms into minerals. Souring of milk, formation of curd and vinegar are examples of the activity of saprophytic bacteria


What do saprophytes lack?

saprophtyc plants lack chlorophyll.........


What types of plants live in the rainforests?

There are plants in the rain forests like Bromeliads,Buttress Roots, Carniverous Plants, Epiphytes, Lians, Orchids, Saprophytes, Stilt/Prop Roots and Strangler Fig.


Where are Saprophytes located?

Saprophytes are plants that live on dead or decaying matter. They obtain nutriment osmotically by absorbing the products of organic breakdown. Therefore, saprophytes are likely to be found around fallen logs in woods or forests, or on heaps of plant material left to rot at the bottom of your garden.


How do vegertarian animal species live?

By eating plants.


Why are saprophytes called saprophytes?

They Live of live or Dead Organic matter


What plants are in the in forest?

There are millions of plants in the rain forest. To name a few, there are the Bromeliads, Epiphytes, Saprophytes, Lianas, and Orchids.