What is "black mangrove"

1. n. an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida [syn: Aegiceras majus]

2. a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground [syn: Avicennia marina]

Black mangrove may refer to the plants:

• Aegiceras corniculatum (Primulaceae) - south-east Asia and Australasia
• Avicennia germinans (Acanthaceae) - tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and on the Atlantic coast of tropical Africa
• Bruguiera gymnorrhiza (Rhizophoraceae) - tropical and subtropical coasts of eastern Africa, Indian Ocean, Asia, Australasia and western Pacific
• Lumnitzera spp. (Combretaceae) - eastern Africa, Asia, Australasia and western Pacific