Up here you can enter a different world where many of the highest peaks are enveloped in mist and fog -- the perfect conditions for the growth of cloud forests. In these forests, twisted, stunted trees are draped everywhere in orchids, mosses, and ferns. At lower elevations, the cloud forests give way to a variety of vegetation, with both temperate and tropical plants, and grassland savannas. Half of Sri Lanka’s endemic flowering plants and more than 34 percent of its endemic trees, shrubs, and herbs are restricted to these diverse montane forests.
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