Avicennia officinalis

Indian Mangrove is an evergreen tree, usually height reaching up to 12 to 15 mete Numerous upright air-filled roots rise above soil from long shallow, horizontal roots. The trunk is Smooth bark with lenticels, yellowish-green to brownish-grey color.

Bark brownish-gray, thin, becoming rough and blackish, Oppositely arranged obovate or broadly oblong leaves are long, rounded at the tip, acute or rounded at base, thick, leathery, edges slightly rolled under.wide. Flowers many 2 to 12 together, stalkless. Flowers are bell-shaped, tubular, yellow or yellow-brown, turning orange, Ovary is conical, hairy. Capsule broadly ovoid, flattened & long. Fruit is densely covered with short hairs, broadly ovate with a short apical beak, Seed 1, large, flattened, without seed coat, germinating in water.