Where do Orchids grow in nature?

Mostly the tropical orchids or subtropical are all epiphytes. That is they do not have roots which grow down into any kind of soil or dirt. They like a lot of air movement around there roots. The northern orchids are a modified epiphyte. There roots do not grow down into dirt so to speak. There roots live in the upper layer of humus.

Orchids grow verywhere except the Arctic, Antarctic, and the major deserts of the world.

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