Chuck Bryant

As far as the money mangroves that I was talking about, we're talking about red, black, and white.

And for my money, I love those red mangroves.

Those are the ones that grow along the water's edge.

They have those prop roots.

And if you've never seen a mangrove, please just look up red mangrove.

And they're called prop roots because they prop that tree up off the ground.

They are fully – well, not fully exposed because they also go into the water and into the soil.

But they are largely exposed and they are just tangled, gnarly, beautiful roots that, again, I can't imagine trying to navigate through a mangrove forest.

You probably had to go around.

Yeah, the black mangroves are still really cool looking because they have these protrusions coming up out of the water called pneumatophores.

And just, you know, put a pin in this.

But they allow the plant to basically breathe, and we'll talk about that later.

But if you look at a picture of these, it looks sort of like almost like little just spiky roots sticking up out of the ground all around the tree.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I don't think I mentioned the black mangroves do grow a little bit further inland than the reds.

A mangal, which is one of the more amazing, we talk about a lot of amazing things about mangroves and mangals, but...

It's the only species of tree that can grow in saltwater.

And big time, they grow.

It's not like they love the salt.