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a tree that drinks the sea and builds whole coastlines out of spite.
means A salt-tolerant tree or shrub that grows in tidal coastal swamps, sending down tangled stilt-like roots that trap sediment and shelter wildlife.
from Likely from the Portuguese 'mangue' (itself probably borrowed from a Taíno or other Arawakan word of the Caribbean), later tangled up in English with 'grove' — the familiar word for a stand of trees — which reshaped the unfamiliar foreign term into something an English ear could hold. So a tropical name was quietly half-translated into 'mangrove,' as if the language itself reached out a root and grabbed the nearest solid thing.
- salt filter
- roots block up to 90% of incoming salt
- breathing roots
- snorkel-like pneumatophores gulp air at low tide
- live birth
- seeds germinate while still on the parent tree
- carbon vault
- stores up to four times more carbon than rainforests
- storm wall
- buffers coastlines from tsunamis and hurricanes
sundarbans — world's largest mangrove forest spanning 10,000 km² across bangladesh and india
everglades — florida's 6,000 km² wetland ecosystem with extensive red mangrove forests
amazon river mouth — largest mangrove area in the americas covering over 1 million hectares in brazil