Wild Flowering Plants
| Acanthaceae family Avicennia germinans (Linnaeus) Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. (ed. 3) 2: 891. 1764. Bas.: Bontia germinans Linnaeus (1759). Manng salé. Black mangrove. Common indigenous tree of coastal mangrove swamps. Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Grenadines, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Barthélemy, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent rest of West Indies, Trinidad, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. Very similar to the rarer Avicennia schaueriana, most easily distinguished by leaf shape. |
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