Playing with Wildfire: 5 Amazing Adaptations of Pyrophytic Plants: Media

The burning question: How do plants survive wildfires?

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Forest fire

brush fire

Controlled burn (backburning) near Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Backburning...

David Crawshaw

Saplings in Wyoming in 1998, born in the fires of 1988 in Yellowstone National Park,...

U.S. National Park Service; photograph, Jim Peaco

Leaves and flowers of the aloe (genus Aloe).

Graphic House/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Australian gum tree (Eucalyptus).

Ron Dorman—Bruce Coleman Inc.

grass tree

Flowering grass trees (Xanthorrhoea), common vegetation of the Big Desert,...

Stone pine

A stand of stone pines (Pinus pinea) in Doñana National Park near Seville,...