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A plant that drinks seawater and shrugs where others would shrivel.

means A plant adapted to grow in salty soil or water that would kill ordinary vegetation.

from From Greek halos (salt) and phyton (plant) — botany's word for the salt-tolerant overachievers of mangrove swamps and salt marshes.

Survival trickMany sequester salt in special cells, then dump them.
Future foodSome are farmed for crops in saltwater agriculture.
Coastal heroesMangroves armor shorelines against storms and erosion.
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