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Tree ferns in a cloud forest on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo Stratus silvagenitus clouds in Uva Province, Sri Lanka. A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level, formally ...
The cloud forest tree frog (Megastomatohyla nubicola) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss. [1] William Edward Duellman described the species in 1964; he placed it in the genus Hyla.
Kuloa usambarensis (synonym Ocotea usambarensis) is a species of tree in the laurel family (). [1] It is native to eastern Africa in Kenya, Tanga Region of Tanzania, and locally in Uganda, where it occurs at 1600–2600 m elevation in high rainfall Afromontane cloud forest.
In the Marquesas Islands, Metrosideros collina is common on drier and more exposed montane forests, in cloud forests, and in shrub form in windswept mountaintop shrublands. [4] On Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, Metrosideros collina is the dominant tree in cloud forests on the island's cloud-shrouded peaks and ridges above 400 metres elevation.
The cloud forest has many of the same tree species as the Bosque Micropholis Buchenavia forest, but growth is limited by adverse climate—heavy rain, strong winds, and almost constant cloud cover. [17] The dwarf or cloud forest developed in the higher peaks of the Central Cordillera is quite different in general appearance from the cloud ...
The Clouds Forest is home to a wide variety of wildlife, including animals such as bears, leopards, ibexes, and other wild creatures.The forest also contains rare plants and trees, such as elm, beech, oak, alder, Sorbus, Taxus, and notably the Juniper tree, which is unique to this region and grows close to the ground.
Polylepis racemosa grows as shrubby trees on steep, rocky slopes above cloud forest. Polylepis tarapacana is one that reaches 4,800 m; the highest elevation of tree growth in the world. [2] There is much debate on whether Polylepis was forced to exhibit such extreme elevation habitats due to habitat destruction by human interference.
Meliosma vernicosa is a tropical tree in the family Sabiaceae. [4] It is a canopy tree of the cloud forest that reaches 20 to 25 meters tall. It prefers elevations of 1500 to 1700 meters. It is found in Costa Rica.