Epiphytes are plants living on other plants which usually are not parasitic. They manufacture their own food and nutrients in the form of minerals extract from decomposing matter in bark or tree crotches. Growing in the tree canopies they have very good access to the sun but at the same time they struggle with the access to water. Cloud forests offer increased humidity and it has its translation to the profusion and density of all sort of epiphytes in those mountainous areas.