Pyrophyte

Pyrophyten are plants that are adapted to the effects of fire, or by the effects of fire - be encouraged - directly or indirectly. In some very hot and dry regions they form so-called fire ecosystems. The Pyrophyten mainly include some trees that protect themselves by a thick bark against the action of the fire. However, it can also be plants whose aerial part burns, which can turn out from underground organs but again, or herbaceous plants whose seed stored in the soil and sprout with the first rains after a fire, bloom and die again. Some plants are even favored by fire or need it for certain stages of development, such as seed formation or seed dispersal ( open cones).

Examples of Pyrophyten are:

• The Australian grass tree ( Xanthorrhoea fulva ) Australia,
• The cork oak ( Quercus suber),
• The lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta ),
• Belonging to the family of the silver tree plants genera Banksia,
• The Protea ( Protea )
• The sequoia ( Sequoioideae ) North America.
• Lilium pyrophilum
• Venus Flytrap
• The rainbow plants
• The grass trees