04-23-2007, 01:17 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Virden, Manitoba
Posts: 5,690
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Yes red mangroves can take both Fresh and Salt water.
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."
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