African Geographic Pictures Collection

Search | About the collection | Practical guide | Contact


link

Image number: 2319
Feature : Mangrove
Grouping : forests and trees
Discipline : botany
Year : 2007
Locality : Gazi Bay
Country : Kenya
Region - tribe : Mombasa
Physiographic region : East-coast of Africa
Notice : Avicennia marina growing at the landward side of the mangrove forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya. A. marina has pencil-like aerial roots. (February 2007)
Reference : Schmitz Nele,   2007    Image 2319.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"