black mangrove
lumnitzera latin

The black mangrove on the island is the northernmost occurrence of the plant.

The name black mangrove refers to the color of the trunk and heartwood.

Red and black mangrove trees constitute the primary forest of barren southern Honduras.

The Black mangrove is a protected tree in South Africa.

The eagle flew south and spent the night in the top of a dead black mangrove along the Lostmans River.

Heitor seemed to fly through the wind and the rain as he leaped from his hiding place within the black mangrove.

Black mangroves have such roots, for example.

Black mangrove is differentiated from other mangrove species by its pneumatophores.

The black mangrove grows just above the high tide in coastal lagoons and brackish water estuaries.

The English common name is Black Mangrove.

Waterthrushes wintering red and black mangrove can maintain body weight through the winter but lose weight in scrub.

The reserve consists of dense forest of Red and Black Mangrove trees.

Next comes the Black Mangrove.

These root extensions are called pneumatophores, and are present, among other, in black mangrove and pond cypress.

Black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), is a species of flowering plant in the acanthus family, Acanthaceae.

It is commonly found among mangroves in coastal areas including Black Mangroves (Rhizophora mucronata).

We bent over black mangrove, a South Florida species that sucks in seawater through vinelike roots and eliminates salt through its leaves.

The predominant species is red mangrove and there is also smaller populations of black mangrove and white mangrove.

Black Mangrove (Avicennia nitida)

They reached the shore, countless stalagmite roots sticking out of the muck from black mangroves, jungle-gym roots grabbing down from the red.

They are not a specific kind of tree, but a way of being a tree; several unrelated species (black mangroves, white mangroves, etc) are involved.

White mangroves grow inland from black mangroves which themselves grow inland from red mangroves.

Avicennia germinans (black mangrove) is easily identifiable by numerous finger like projections, called pneumatophores, allowing them to tolerate high sediment loads.

Here Black Mangrove and Red Mangrove are the northernmost mangroves in the Atlantic.

Black Mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorrhiza) is the second most pervasive species and is generally found around the rivers where sediments are deposited along the shoreline.

Hybrids occur within the zone of overlap (Lumnitzera x rosea).

Three genera, Conocarpus, Laguncularia and Lumnitzera, grow in mangrove habitats (mangals).

They consist of species belonging to the Rhizophora, Avicennia, Bruguiera, Ceriops and Lumnitzera genus.

The other common mangrove species are Sonneratia caseolaris, Acanthus ilicifolius, Excoecaria agallocha, and Lumnitzera racemosa.

The flora is very rich on this area, with plenty of mangrove trees such as Rhizophora mucronata, the Mangrove Date Palm Phoenix paludosa and plants such as Lumnitzera.

Leafminers, leaf bettles, loopers and leaftiers are pests on mangrove trees: Pongamia pinnata, Osbornia octodonta, Terminalia catappa, Excoecaria agallocha, Sonneratia caseolaris, and Lumnitzera littorea.

Three genera of the tropical woody family Combretaceae, Laguncularia, Conocarpus, and Lumnitzera, are found in mangroves but Lumnitzera is the only one to occur in the Indo-West Pacific mangroves, including Australia.