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A tropical rainforest several-year-old leaf covered with epiphyllae. The epiphyllae are a mix of plants (mosses, ferns, algae) and lichens (fungae with algae inside), and can quite effectively block sunlight, especially at low light intensity in the forest understory. See below.
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