- Stability: The Red Mangroves Prop roots and the Black Mangroves widespread roots give the mangroves the stability it needs in the water and on the shoreline.
- Salt: While most plants cannot live in environments with extremely high salinity, mangroves salt tolerance allows it to thrive in extreme amounts of saline.
- Oxygen-poor: Mangroves grow in waterlogged soils which do not contain much oxygen. They have an adaptation of specialized roots that get gasses and air to the underground
- Viviparous: The seeds of the tree remain attached to the tree and germinate before they drop. It grows propagules and drops into the water until it can find soil.
- Seeds: Some mangroves have an adaptation of producing seeds that float, the tide carries them away and it avoids young plants being too close together
1.http://w3.shorecrest.org/~Lisa_Peck/MarineBio/syllabus/ch6producers/producerwp/cw/roots.gif
2.http://www.asknature.org/images/uploads/strategy/0ef4cce98e84127a384ff963259e4724/a3222d98ecae0afb0bd8758c7cea7a9c.jpg
3. http://ecology.hku.hk/jupas/Mangrove/Pneumatophores.gif
4. http://campus.albion.edu/florida08/files/2008/03/red-mangrove-seedling-propagule.jpg
5. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/estuaries/media/estuar07d_600.jpg
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