MANGROVE swamps, marshes and sloughs and seashores.Xerophytes Any plant adapted to life in a dry or physiologically dry habitat (salt marsh, saline soil, or acid bog) by means of mechanisms to prevent water loss or to STORE available water.Heliophytesheliophytic plants, also CALLED sun-loving plants, are those that require for their optimum growth full exposure to the sun. Examples are coconut, MANGO (MANGIFERA indica), sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum), corn (Zea mays).SaprophytesA saprophyte is an organism that survives by consuming nutrients from dead and decaying plant and animal material, that is, organic matter.