Freshwater Mangrove

Barringtonia racemosa

Summary 6

Barringtonia racemosa (powder-puff tree, Afrikaans: pooeierkwasboom, Zulu: Iboqo, is a tree in the family Lecythidaceae. It is found in coastal swamp forests and on the edges of estuaries in the Indian Ocean, starting at the east coast of Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) to Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, southern China, northern Australia, coastal Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands and many Polynesian islands.
It grows in fresh water.

Sources and Credits

  1. (c) shiau rong, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/greenlost/22605501/
  2. (c) Chris Wahlberg, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Chris Wahlberg
  3. (c) Ricky Taylor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ricky Taylor
  4. (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barringtonia_racemosa01.jpg
  5. (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barringtonia_racemosa03.jpg
  6. Adapted by Ricky Taylor from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barringtonia_racemosa

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iNat Map

Degree of waterlogging 1_very_wet_permanent_standing_water, 2_Moderately_wet_forest_some_standing_water, 3_forest_damp_but_without_standing_water