White Mangrove (MatBio: TREES & SHRUBS - Matanzas Biodiversity)

White Mangrove

Laguncularia racemosa

Summary ³

Laguncularia racemosa (white mangrove; syn. Conocarpus racemosa) is a species of flowering plant in the leadwood tree family, Combretaceae. It is native to the coasts of western Africa from Senegal to Cameroon, the Atlantic coast of the Americas from Bermuda, Florida, the Bahamas, Mexico, the Caribbean and south to Brazil; and on the Pacific coast of the Americas from Mexico to northwestern Peru, including the Galápagos Islands.

Taxon biology ⁴

Laguncularia racemosa has a distribution along the shores of much of the tropical Americas including both the Caribbean and Pacific coastlines. Specific locations include coastal areas of Panama, Costa Rica, Belize, the Yucatan Petenes mangroves, central and southern Florida, most West Indies Caribbean islands, Bermuda, parts of coastal Equador, northwestern Peru, and Brazil; in addition there are populations in western tropical Africa. Habitats are slightly more upland than most mangrove species, generally above the high tide mark.

Also known by the common name White mangrove, this species can attain a height of twelve to nineteen meters. The rough fissured bark is grayish-brown to reddish. Pneumatophores and prop roots sometimes occur. The elliptical leaves are opposite, and measure twelve to twenty centimeters in length.

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W.D. Brush, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://plants.usda.gov/gallery/large/lara2_008_lvp.jpg
(c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguncularia_racemosa
(c) Unknown, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/8991840

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