Mangrove Field Guide
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©JOHN DAVID TOBE 2000 TOBE ©JOHN DAVID FIELD GUIDE TO FLORIDA MANGROVES Buttonwood Black Mangrove White Mangrove Red Mangrove Conocarpus Avicennia Laguncularia Rhizophora Mean High Water Mangroves provide coastal protection by binding the soil and they provide habitat and breeding areas for sea life Mean Low Water cluster of scalelike winged fruits Red Mangrove Rhizophora mangle leaves alternate, 2-10 cm long, 2-3 cm wide fruit a ribbed, dark leaves opposite, 2-7 cm long, to 5 cm wide Buttonwood brown, leathery drupe Conocarpus erectus glands on petiole glands on petiole White Mangrove leaves opposite, 5-8 cm long, 2-5 wide; upper surface often with salt grains, lower surface pale gray FACW Laguncularia racemosa Black Mangrove leaves opposite, 5-15 cm long, 3-6 wide Avicennia germinans “cone-like” fruit lifesize opposite leaves, glossy above, dull opposite leaves, tip often notched, green below, often with black fruit flattened to 2 cm long, glands opposite leaves, dark green above, spots; seedlings germinate on the on leaf petiole; trees to 50 feet tall silvery gray below; bark dark tree-an elongate propagule; large alternate leaves, angled stem, leaves green or shrubs in northern edge of grayish-brown to blackish; upright trees to 50 ft, extensive prop-roots and smooth or hairy - var. sericea; fruit a range roots produced called pneumato- small round “botton”; trees up to 60 ft tall phores, seeds resemble lima beans and arching roots or shrubs fruit life size Plants associated with mangroves leaves pointed, 6-16 cm long compound leaves, fruit a red drupe tree with alternate odd-pinnately evergreen leaflets usually 7-9, capsule, 2-3 cm wide fruit a flattened each is 2-5 cm long; 1-3 cm wide, margins smooth to toothed FAC Carrotwood FAC Coin Vine VINE evergreen tree with alternate Cupaniopsis anacardioides pinnately compound leaves, Dalbergia ecastophyllum Brazilian-pepper fruit a yellow to orange INVASIVE EXOTIC capsule, seeds shiny-black, Schinus terebinthifolius inner wood orange INVASIVE EXOTIC fruit a leathery capsule, 3-5 cm wide flowers yellow with a Coco Plum maroon center, fading FACW to dark pink Chrysobalanus icaco leaves rounded, 3-8 cm long leaves heart-shaped, vine with yellow flowers 5-12 cm long fruit a conelike aggregate with vine with whitish flowers beaked capsules that 6-8 scale-like leaves/node release small winged FAC seeds; shown here FAC Australian Pine lifesize Casuarina equisetifolia VINE Seaside Mahoe INVASIVE EXOTIC Wild Allamanda Thespesia populnea Pentalinon luteum VINE Mangrove Vine =Urechites lutea hard seeds with 1-2 gray, compound; fruit a prickly pod leaves; leaves are bipinnately vine with prickly stems and INVASIVE EXOTIC Rhabdadenia biflora 1.5 cm long, 5-6 wide leaves dark shiny green with 3 main veins; fruit a white drupe to 12 cm or more long; leaves thick and fleshy Inkberry UPL , VINE Asian Snakewood FAC Beach Naupaka Scaevola plumieri UPL Colubrina asiatica Scaevola sericea leaves thick and fleshy, Nicker Bean to 6.5 cm long; fruit a black Caesalpinia bonduc INVASIVE EXOTIC INVASIVE EXOTIC drupe 0.5-1.4 cm wide.