Descriptive
Information
- Field
Marks: "Leaves are opposite, entire,
leathery, and elliptic. Flowers have four yellowish to white
petals, borne in clusters of two or three at the leaf axils.
The fruit is brown and egg shaped, germinating while still attached
to the tree and sending out a distinctive, cigar-shaped seedling."
- Size:
"Evergreen shrub or small tree to about 25 m in height."
- General
Habitat: " Lives in shallow salt water, found
on every salt water coast and bay."
- Geographical
Range: "Confined to shallow waters of
coastal bays, lagoons, creeks, and rivers; from Levy and Volusia counties
southward and throughout the Keys."
- Ecosystems
Where Observed: Mangrove Islands
- Other
Information: "Distinguished from white
mangrove by dark, shiny green upper surfaces of leaves, from black
mangrove by pale green lower surfaces of leaves, and from both by
numerous reddish prop roots that arise from the lower trunk and branches,
and the long radicles that appear from early summer into fall."
- References:
(Nelson, 1994, p. 260)
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