All mangroves grow in a salty or brackish water and each has a unique adaptation to survive there. Red Mangroves are capable of blocking salt water from entering their roots, while
Black Mangroves excrete salt trough their leaves. Below you can see the salt crystals on the leaf.
Below are leaves from the four main species found in a mangrove forest. From left to right - Black Mangrove, Red Mangrove, White Mangrove and Buttonwood.
Mangroves grow from Tampa on Florida's west coast around the pennisula and north to Jacksonville. Well....rumor has it they have one mangrove tree up there. We'll count it. But the majority of the mangroves cap the bottom of the Everglades and makes up what is known as the 10,000 Islands National Wildlife Refuge - a vast wilderness made up of well over 15,000 small mangrove tree islands. Can you blame someone for stopping their count at 10,000? I've simply outlined the area below.
Videography and editing by Patricio Garcia and Jose Espaillet
You've certainly got a suitable Crocodile Hunter hat, but I didn't hear a single "Crikey" in the whole video... ;)
ReplyDeleteMy catch phrase is "it squirted on me"
ReplyDeleteWe used to use buttonwood to smoke mullet with until it become illegal to cut.
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