Auke Rec. Plant Adaptation

Tuesday June 8th:
While we were at Auke Rec. we picked plants. We learned that the plants in the forest can absorb water and nutrients from the forest floor, but the plants and grasses on the beach can't absorb nutrients from the sand. When the tide comes up the salt water covers them, so they had to adapt to their environtment by changing their physical characteristics. The majority of plants on the beach have a layer of wax to keep the salt water from being absorbed. They have pores that open up when it rains to collect fresh water so they can survive. That is how one plants adaptation would work.