Nature and more
A collection of images showing the wonders of nature.
Through this blog you can appreciate biodiversity, wildlife, landscape, geology and mineralogy worldwide as well as artistic expressions of nature and some oddities.
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A very old Looking-glass Tree - Heritiera littoralis
This amazing tree is a 400 year old mangrove belonging to the species Heritiera littoralis (Malvales - Sterculiaceae).
H. littoralis is a much branched, untidy tree, up to 25 m tall, whose bole up to 60 cm in diameter, is often twisted and stunted, and has thin, wavy and ribbon-like buttresses, often extending far out.
The species occurs along the coast of eastern Africa from Kenya through Tanzania to Mozambique, in the Indian Ocean islands, tropical Asia, tropical Australia, Hawaii and New Caledonia. It does not occur wild in Réunion and Mauritius, but has been introduced there.
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Photo credit: ©jay-ar images | Locality: Iriomote, Okinawa, Japan (2013)
