Ella, Sri Lanka. The hills are covered with cloud forest and rain forest. There are endemic trees, shrubs, and herbs that can only be found in this ecoregion. Mossy forests usually develop on the slopes of mountains, where moisture by settling clouds is retained.
Image: “Ella Valley, Sri Lanka, Cloud forest in fog” by Vyacheslav Argenberg, licensed CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons.
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- Vyacheslav Argenberg
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- “Ella Valley, Sri Lanka, Cloud forest in fog” by Vyacheslav Argenberg (CC BY 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
