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Rhizophora mangle (American mangrove; red mangrove; mangrove)

Synonyms: Rhizophora americana

Wikipedia Abstract

Rhizophora mangle, known as the red mangrove, is distributed in estuarine ecosystems throughout the tropics. Its viviparous "seeds," in actuality called propagules, become fully mature plants before dropping off the parent tree. These are dispersed by water until eventually embedding in the shallows.
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Invasive Species

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Attributes

Janka Hardness [2]  2760 lbf (1252 kgf) Very Hard
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Specific Gravity [4]  0.89
Structure [1]  Tree

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Citations

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Wood Technology Transfer Fact Sheets U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service
♦ 5Herbivory and Predation by the Mangrove Tree Crab Aratus pisonii, James W. Beever III, Daniel Simberloff, and Linda L. King, Oecologia (Berl.) 43, 317-328 (1979)
♦ 6Bradypus pygmaeus, VIRGINIA HAYSSEN, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 812:1-4 (2008)
♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 8Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 9Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-03-21; License: CC BY 4.0