prop root

Old trees can spread out laterally using these prop roots to cover a wide area.

It is supported by prop roots that firmly anchor the tree to the ground.

Prop roots give mechanical support to the aerial branches.

It has aerial prop roots and grows on rocks.

Pneumatophores and/or prop roots may be present, depending on environmental conditions.

There was always still, black water somewhere beneath the random lattice of branches and prop roots.

It has multiple prop roots, which may help to stabilize the soil around its roots.

The elevator split into a hundred cables, like a mangrove supported by prop roots.

We followed at a respectful distance until the bird disappeared into a maze of prop roots, and vowed to return next morning.

The dense undergrowth of their aerial prop roots perform natural land reclamation.

Fry stayed close and kept quiet, even when the barnacle-covered prop roots raked his legs.

Prop roots, and many aerial roots, penetrate the soil.

They have specialized prop roots that protect shorelines and serve as nurseries for many marine animals.

The defining feature is usually their dense and tangled prop roots that are periodically inundated by the high tide.

Red mangroves are easily distinguishable through their unique prop roots system and viviparous seeds.

It may have prop roots and/or pneumatophores, depending on conditions where it is growing.

Here, they rose in dense thickets above prop roots flexed in low arches.

The trunk features aerial prop roots.

They commonly have many thick prop roots near the base, which provide support as the tree grows top-heavy with leaves, fruit, and branches.

The prop roots of a red mangrove suspend it over the water, thereby giving it extra support and protection.

They stopped by a small tree, thick with hanging fibers, and with dark hollows showing beneath its prop roots.

Some of the propping roots actually entered the ground, thus supporting the shrublike tree, but the rest simply dangled.

Without this supportive structure, the P. utilis grows many pale brown prop roots at the base of the trunk.

Older banyan trees have aerial prop roots that grow into thick woody trunks which, with age, can become indistinguishable from the main trunk.

It lives mainly above sea level on the branches and prop roots of the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).