Does mangrove tree grow better in fresh water???

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Does mangrove tree grow better in fresh water???

Answer 1

No. Mangroves are trees and shrubs that grow in tropical and subtropical tidelands throughout the world but only in areas that are frequently inundated with salt water due to tidal activity of gulfs, seas and oceans. Mangroves are able to thrive in salt water inundations because of specialized rooting structures (such as prop roots and pneumatophores), specialized reproduction (vivipary or live birth) and the ability to exclude or excrete salt. Mangroves grow exclusively in these tidal areas in large stands or groves to where these areas are referred to as their own ecological community, collectively called mangroves. In Florida, mangroves include four tree species: red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa) and buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus). Each mangrove species has a different level of salt tolerance, which in part determines its location in tidal zones. They can take freshwater for a limited period - like when a swamp is flushed by flash water  but this can only last a few eeks at most....