Four to eight hours or less of sun is considered shady and can be full or dense shade, part shade, or light-filtered shade.

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Orchids and bromeliads clung to lichen-laden limbs of miniature trees that grew on beds of colorful spongy moss. Carnivorous pitcher plants pooled rain and trapped the forest’s tiniest lives.