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Josh Clark

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Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

It's called the Sundarbans.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

And that's where the Bengal tiger lives, which is pretty cool.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

Don't even try.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

That's right.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

And again, you said that they grow subtropically.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

And Chuck, I want to share that it was just today that I finally stopped and was like, this subtropical thing is driving me crazy.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

Like, it's above the tropics.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

On either side.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

It's either above or below depending on where your perspective is.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

But it's not below the equator.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

And then I realized if you're on the equator from the perspective of the equator, it's below the equator on either side.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

So it's subtropical.

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Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

I never have.

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Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

I've never been to Ecuador.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

Yeah, and see if we melt.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

Yeah, it can be really, really thick, both above water and below water because of those roots.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

So those roots, if you see them, that means that it's low tide.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

At high tide, they're usually covered up with water.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

But it's like you said, they prop the tree up.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

And so for that reason, because at low tide you can see the bottom of the tree and it's above ground, they're sometimes called walking trees.