🌱 GROWTH FORM

• Medium to large tree growing up to 30 m.

🌱 TRUNK

• Smooth or slightly flaky grey trunk.

🌱 ROOTS

• Extensive lateral root system stretching just below the soil surface.

• Pencil-like breathing roots (pneumatophores) stick vertically out of the muddy ground to take in oxygen.

🌱 FOLIAGE

• Elliptic or oblong-obovate leaves with a round tip.

• Pale green lower surface, upper surface covered with glandular dots.

• Leaf size: up to 9 × 4.5 cm.

🏵️ FLOWERS

• Small, regular, orange to dark orange flowers, 5 - 8 mm in size, with a waxy surface.

• Terminal flower clusters usually contain 2 - 12 flowers.

• Corolla has 4 equal lobes, ovary has a short style and a median ring of hairs that do not conceal the stigma.

🍊 FRUITS

• Light green, ovoid in shape with a broad base and sharp apical beak, measuring about 2 cm across.

• Cryptovivipary: The embryo germinates within the fruit but does not enlarge sufficiently to break through the fruit wall.

Avicennia marina, also known as Api Api Ludat, is a mangrove tree. It has large orange-yellow flowers that smell rancid. The leaves are oblong shaped and the underside are distinctly yellowish green.

🌿Growth Conditions:

✅Sole Type: It is best to have tight muddy soil or soft lightning that subsides from 10-30cm.

✅ Type Mode: Preferably the number of days of tidal flooding from 20-25 days per month, the exposure time from 5-8 hours per day.

✅ Climate: The average monthly temperature is over 20°C, the average annual rainfall is from 1,300-2,400mm/year.

✅ Salinity: Suitable for Avicennia marina ranges from 15-25‰.