Talk:Rhizophora mangle

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Black Mangroves do not ALWAYS grow directly inland of Red Mangroves. I have seen and possess pictures of Black Mangroves growing in the water with no other mangrove species near it.

• Support. I agree. They definitely do not always grow in a particular order. They are often intermingled. Sometimes one is present is a given area and another is not. I have seen plenty of black mangrove directly on the shoreline in South Florida, where reds were also present or not present. But although the statement definitely isn't true of individual trees, perhaps it holds in some less rigid, more general formulation. See Image:Red mangrove-everglades natl park.jpg and Image:Black mangrove-everglades natl park.jpg for examples of red and black mangroves growing in exactly the same setting, an inland body of shallow water which drains to empty or near empty at low tide and fills to at most a few feet at high tide.