Mesophyte

As mesophytes ( from Greek: meso - medium and phytos - plant ) is called in biology plants that occur in moderately humid. You thereby take up a position between hygrophytes and xerophytes. The plants are mostly adapted to conditions in which the elements essential for plant life gases, oxygen and carbon dioxide are present dissolved in water and the plant therefore are not easily accessible.

Mesophytes are characterized by relatively large leaves, which are not consistently hairy on the surface and have no wax coatings. There are also species that live as annual plants in deserts bloom and there during the rainy season.

Thus, deciduous trees such as the hornbeam examples of mesophytes. They adapt to their environment by shed their foliage in winter.

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