The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (Rhizophora Mangle, and Rhizophora mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aƫrial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.
Tropical or subtropical vegetation (mainly trees) typical of tidal swamps.
Tropical tree that grows in tidally flooded coastal banks or estuaries, showing various adaptations such as salt tolerance or secretion, vivipary, or the development of prop-roots; or the plant community occurring in such regions.
Salt-tolerant trees or shrubs that have their lower trunk and roots in the water usually in the intertidal zone
A small tropical tree that grows in wetlands at the edge of the ocean. Mangrove forests are habitat for many kinds of fishes and other animals.
a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building
a forest at the edge of the sea or the estuaries
a forest between land and sea, trees which have evolved to living in a seawater environment," says Aidi
a forest of trees and bushes growing in the seashore in tropical and subtropical areas where seawater and freshwater mix
a hardy, versatile plant for your freshwater, brackish water, or marine aquarium
a woody plant or plant community which lives between the sea and the land in areas which are inundated by tides
a group of tropical plant species that grow in low marshy areas at latitudes below about 30 degrees; they have extensive root systems and produce much organic detritus to create a unique coastal environment for marine life
a tidal salt-marsh forest in the tropics dominated by trees and shrubs that have roots which are exposed at low tide and which is inundated with salt water at high tide
Plant formations characteristic of river banks and coastlines in tropical areas. They form impenetrable tidal marine forests which attach their stilted roots in calm bays where mud and silt settle.
Tall woody vegetation, usually trees (woodland to forest) but also shrubs, growing in the intertidal zone and thus able to withstand periods of inundation by seawater each day.
a plant (belonging to any of a wide range of species, mainly trees and shrubs) that grows in sediment regularly inundated by sea water
One of several genera of tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs that have prop roots and that grow in the shallow waters of the coastal zone.
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tree species that grow in non-freezing estuaries. There are about 12 species though the black, red, and white are most common.
Treed wetlands located on the coastlines in warm tropical climates.
Mangroves are tropical evergreen trees and shrubs. They live near the shore in tropical marshes and tidal shores with their adventitious roots in the salt water. Classification: genus Rhizophora. Some mangroves include the red mangrove ( Rizophora mangle), the black mangrove ( Avicennia germinans), and the white mangrove ( Laguncularia racemosa).
Mangroves (generally) are trees and shrubs that grow in saline coastal habitats. The word is used in at least three senses, (1) most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage or mangal Hogarth, Peter J. (1999). The Biology of Mangroves Oxford University Press, Oxford. , for which the terms mangrove swamp and mangrove forest are also used, (2) to refer to all trees and large shrubs in the mangal, and (3) narrowly to refer to the mangrove family of plants, the Rhizophoraceae, or even more specifically just to mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora.