Mangrove

Mangroves are trees and shrubs that grow in saline coastal habitats. The word is used in at least three senses, most generally to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage or mangal , for which the terms mangrove swamp and mangrove forest are also used, to refer to all trees and huge shrubs in the mangal, and narrowly to refer to the mangrove family of plants, the Rhizophoraceae, or even more specially just to mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora. Mangal is found in depositional coastal environments where fine sediments, often with high organic content, collect in areas protected from high energy wave action.