Red mangrove
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Rhizophora mangle L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 14 m
- wide
- 7.6 m
Rhizophoraceae
Also called American mangrove, American Mangrove, Red Mangrove
Formerly Bruguiera decangulata, Rhizophora americana
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Florida to Trop. America, W. Trop. Africa to AngolaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 6.1 m to 23 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Spread
- 6.1 m to 9.1 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: UF/IFAS white; Wikipedia yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Mangle colorado, Mangle rojo, Mangle Colorado
- root
- Ta'ab che', tabché, manng wouj, Mang wouj
- Portuguese
- mangue vermelho, Mangue-vermelho, Mangue-guaparaíba
- French
- Palétuvier rouge
- Finnish
- atlantinpunamangrovepuu
- Japanese
- アメリカヒルギ
- Czech
- kořenovník obecný
- Russian
- Ризофора мангле
- Chinese (China)
- 美洲红树
- Chinese
- 美洲紅樹
- Italian
- mangrovia rossa
- German
- Rote Mangrove
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Rhizophora mangle (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.