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Laguncularia

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Noun1.Laguncularia - a genus of Laguncularia
plant genus - a genus of plants
Combretaceae, combretum family, family Combretaceae - a family of tropical trees and shrubs of the order Myrtales
Laguncularia racemosa, white mangrove - shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin


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According to the International Association for Human Values, trees such as the Iva imbricate, borrichia arborescens and the laguncularia racemosa use only a third of water required by the most commonly used species.
Most WNV seropositive equines were located in evergreen forests characterized by a low altitude ([less than or equal to] 100 m) and intensive farming of sugar cane in the vicinity of mangroves (Rhizophora mangle, Avicennia germinans, Laguncularia racemosa, Conocarpus erectus), back mangroves (marshy forests with Pterocarpus spp.
The presumed female flowers of the white mangrove, Laguncularia racemosa, sport what look like male parts, but botanists had assumed that these organs didn't work.
 
 
 
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