🌱 GROWTH FORM

• Medium to large tree growing up to 20 m.

🌱 TRUNK

• Smooth, brownish-black bark.

🌱 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.

• Pneumatophores may grow up to 15 - 20 cm in height.

🌱 FOLIAGE

• Leaves are oblong to lanceolate, pointed, smooth, glossy-green on the upper surface, and very pale underneath.

• Leaf size: 15 × 5 cm.

• Upper surface covered with many glandular dots, capable of excreting salt through special salt glands.

🏵️ FLOWERS

• Yellow to orange flowers, 3 - 4 mm across.

• Usually in clusters of 10 - 30 flowers, measuring 1.5 - 3 cm long.

• The upper half of the ovary is usually hairy.

🍊 FRUITS

• Pale green, egg-shaped with a broad base and a pronounced beak, measuring up to 4 cm.

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

Avicennia alba is naturally distributed on coastal beaches, best grown in humid tropical climates, sub-equatorial, all year round hot, no cold months. It is a common mangrove in the Mekong Delta.

🌿 Growth Conditions:

✅ Sold Type: It is suitable for soft mud soils; or soil with a sand ratio of <10%.

✅ Type Mode: The best is 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: Avicennia Alba are quite salt resistant, the salinity of water in the rainy season is from 20-21‰, the dry season is from 28-33‰).