Bengal Bamboo is one of the few plants to thrive on the forest floor. It has adapted to its climate by growing up to 80ft high to reach the limited sunlight it needs to live.
Another plant that lives here is the Curare plant. It carries the toxin D-turbocurarine to deter would be animals that would eat it.
Tropical Rainforest
Tropical rainforests are truly unique in their own. Found solely between 30 degrees North and 30 degrees South of the equator, they are a true paradise with a constant temperature above 20 degrees Celsius. The tropical forest is mainly located in the continent of South America. In the Tropical rainforests have about 250 centimetres of precipitation year round. However, the soil is undernourished because of the limited sunlight that pierces the overgrown canopy and because all the rainfall which causes floods that wash away all the nutrients in the soil. As the name suggests, it is damp and wet every hour of the day due to the high moisture content in the air. Every tropical rainforest is divided into four sections: The emergent layer consisting of 100-200 ft tall trees usually spaced wide apart, the afore mentioned canopy, made of a thick layer of foliage, the understory a secondary layer of foliage smaller than the canopy, and the forest floor ground beneath it all nearly would of growth but not uninhabited.
Animal Adaptations
The Gaboon Viper just one of the thousands of critters that roam the forest floor. With some of the best camouflage in the entire animal kingdom they wait to ambush their prey with one of the most potent venom.
A second creature that lives in the tropical rainforests of the world is the jumping spider. There are over 500 breeds of jumping spider. As their name indicates they jump onto their prey from afar. These spiders have adapted strategies of surviving, they will spin a single silk thread and attach it to the place where they stand. Then and only then will they jump, using their thread as a lifeline just in case they miss their target.