tree-oysters

Updated: May 7, 2025

This inlet was fringed with such dense masses of the mangrove shrub, on which clung countless numbers of small tree-oysters, adhering to their branches in clusters, and looking as though they subsisted thereon after the manner of orchidaceous plants, that we could obtain no view whatever, save of the hills towering to the height of some ten hundred or twelve hundred feet above us.

John Hanning Speke - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile