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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... and aerial roots of mangroves are typically dotted with numerous lenticels--small pores which provide gas exchange between the roots and the atmosphere. Lenticels are especially conspicuous on the prop roots ... of pencil-like pneumatophores around its base. See The Black Mangrove & Tea Mangrove See Aerial Prop Roots Of The Red Mangrove Another Assortment Of Drift Fruits & Seeds Mangroves survive in ...
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Stranglers & Banyans
... largest (spreading) tree crown, with 1,000 prop roots and covering an area of four acres ... Polynesia. The trunks in foreground are large aerial prop roots from the enormous tree in the distance. ... aerial roots growing from the limbs. Some of the roots have fused (anastomosed) into massive pillars. The decayed trunk of the host tree is still visible inside the strangler's web of fused aerial roots ...
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Floridata: Pandanus utilius
... be planted. Soil and organic materials are trapped within the screw pine's network of aerial prop roots, a characteristic that makes this species invaluable for stabalizing dunes and coastlines in its native ... tray of gravel filled with water. In its native habitat, screw pine, with its many aerial prop roots, is sometimes used for erosion control and to bind sand dunes. The long strap shaped ...
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Floridata: Ficus benghalensis
... page A single banyan tree will grow a forest of prop roots as it matures over a long lifetime. Description Banyan ... , banyan produces aerial roots that hang down from horizontal branches and take root where they touch the ground. These vertical "prop roots" can create a forest on their own. Banyan can get 100' tall and, with its massive limbs supported by prop roots, spread ...
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RBGE: The Glasshouses - Windows on the World
... , thickened aerial roots, whose spongy tissues enable them to absorb nutrients from the atmosphere. In the centre of the house is the screw pine (Pandanus) with a skirt of supporting prop roots. In the unstable riverside silts and swamps where these trees usually grow, the prop roots provide essential anchorage. To Top Tropical Palms Not ...
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Orchid Glossary Terms
... contact | links | site map home the greenhouse orchid growthpests, diseases & potting orchid lingo Orchid Glossary Aerial Roots- Roots produced above or out of the substrate or potting mix. Alba- White form of a ... organ of the flower. Stem- The leaf- and flower-bearing part of the plant. Stem prop- Loose term for “meristem propagation” or the plant that results from this technique. Stigma ...
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