Shade shelters are an important structure where rain forest plants are gathered together. They mimic the shade cast by the foliage of the tall trees, and the humidity that builds up because the moisture cannot escape easily through the forest canopy, or in this case through the fabric used nowadays for the roof. In the olden days it was made from wooden slats. The shade shelter can grow many of our native rain forest exotics, such as bromeliads, monsteras, alocasias, ferns,