(Best months for growing Strawberries (from seeds) in Australia-temperate regions). S = Plant undercover in seed trays. 1  Start inside in pots or trays after chilling seeds.. 2  Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed.
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Saprophyte(noun) any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.
Saprophyte may refer to. 1  Saprotroph, a term used for organisms which obtain nutrients from dead organic matter (this term commonly applies to fungi) 2  Saprophytes are more generally plants, fungi, or micro-organisms that live on dead or decomposing matter. Some may more accurately be called myco-heterotrophs because they actually parasitize fungi, rather than dead organic matter directly.