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Creepers and Vines
We often find plants growing along walls, fences or around tree trunks, these are called creepers and vines. These plants climb and grow by using hooks, tendrils or suckers to hold on to a surface and grow upwards or by coiling around other plants and trees. Climbing plants save the energy. spent by other plants in growing stems, for growing faster by using the stems of other plants for support. Most of these plants have special organs they use for grasping on to a stem or surface. These include tough roots which grow all along the creepers, these roots hold on to other objects for support.
Some plants have sticky pads or suckers which help them in gaining support while others may just coil around some plant or object. Examples of creepers include White bryony, Bindweed, Virginia creeper etc. Most creepers are wild plants but some arc grown by people along the walls of their houses or on their fences because of their beauty.