Red mangrove, Rhizophora
mangle are characteristic
of most mangrove swamps.
They are easily identified
by their prop-roots arising
from trunks and branches.


A small red mau
grove with its
prop roots stand.
out among the
pneumatophores of
the surrounding
black mangroves.


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Interior of a mangrove
swamp dominated by black
mangrove (Avbc h germi
nans), characterized by
the short vertical aera-
ting branches (pne uma, o-
phores) arising from the
roots..