I'm at Shurland James Hummingbird Nature Park, a bird sanctuary with an alfresco café located near the entrance to Main Ridge Forest Reserve, the world's oldest protected tropical rainforest.

Most of our knowledge about how plants function has been focused on leaves or stems, however, we do not know that much about the functional traits of roots. Fine roots (the thin roots at the end ...

The following adaptations allow plants to survive in the conditions of the rainforest. Lianas - these are woody vines that have roots in the ground but climb up the trees to reach the sunlight.

The following adaptations allow plants to survive in the conditions of the rainforest. Lianas - these are woody vines that have roots in the ground but climb up the trees to reach the sunlight.

He suggested a mellow rainforest trek. We stopped at the hummingbird park and café, where bird feeders have helped repopulate the rare, endemic, iridescent green-tailed sabrewing hummingbird.