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Old 11-April-2007, 02:25 AM
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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen View Post
D. They gather a reserve from rainwater for use when it's not raining.

The existence of epiphytes shows your list to be incomplete.
OK I will admit I did not list an Item D. But I did suggest that such a small organism likc coral would not be substantial enought to store rainwater thus I recognised the problem and dismissed it as a method that a tiny colony organism could apply unlike a much larger plants which can grow the structures to store rain water
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