Acidophilus

Acidophilus [ Botany - Ecology ]	Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names
Synonyms: Acidophil, Acidophile, Acidophilic, Acidophilous,

A plant (or other organism) growing well in a relatively acid environment.

Acidophile (or acidophil, or acidophilous, or, as an adjectival form, acidophilic) is a general name for a group of organism that prefer to grows in acidic environment Among these organisms there are many plants (also referred as calciphobe plants) that strive in soil with a a low pH (below to 7) and that usually cannot tollerate calcite in the substratum.

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