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Short Of Breath
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Mangroves grow on tropical coasts and in muddy swamps. The mud in which they grow contains only minute quantities of oxygen and the plants are regularly submerged at high tide. As a result, their roots have developed into knobbly tubes extending upward into the air.
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Book:
Horrible but True
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Section:
Natural World
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Chapter:
Weird Plants
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