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Updated: May 8, 2025
The explorers referred to the belt of magnificent calophyllum trees along the margin of the south-west beach, and Mr Dalrymple thus describes a vegetable wonder "Some large fig-trees sent out great lateral roots, large as their own trunks, fifty feet into salt water; an anchor-root extending perpendicularly at the extremity to support them.
The mangrove's trunk, alone of all trunks, is impervious to the corrosive action of the sea. At once the bud set to work. It drove an anchor-root into the reef, then other roots and still others. It shot up to the height of a foot or two, and thence sent thick red-brown roots straight downward into the coral again. And so on, until it had formed a tangled root-fence for many yards alongshore.
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