Assertion: Epiphytic plants like orchids get their nutrients and water from the atmosphere.
Reason: Because they have hygroscopic roots, which contain a special type of spongy tissue called velamen.
(a) Both Assertion and Reason are correct, Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.
(b) Both Assertion and Reason are correct, Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.
(c) Assertion is false, Reason is correct.
(d) Both Assertion and Reason are false.
