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What is a lithophyte?

What is a lithophyte? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) Any plant that lives grows on rocks, obtaining nourishment from rain and the atmosphere.
  2. (zoology) Any organism, such as a coral, resembling a stony plant.
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Plant a terrestrial, lithophyte or rheophyte, flowering 40-60 cm tall, spreading by 2-6 cm x 5 mm slender stolons.
Plant a densely clustering terrestrial or lithophyte, flowering 45-120 cm tall.
However it is not an obligate lithophyte, and can colonise recently dug clay soil banks by trail sides, and indeed the largest population observed was along the coastal trail toward the subterranean river cave entrance.

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