The tree is also sometimes known as "'cork tree "', because fishermen in some areas make fishing net floats by shaping the pneumatophores into small floats.
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Like the related genus " Taxodium ", it produces'cypress knees', or pneumatophores, when growing in water, thought to help transport oxygen to the roots.
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One early assumption of their function was that they provided oxygen to the roots that grow in the low dissolved oxygen ( DO ) waters typical of a swamp, acting as pneumatophores : mangroves have similar adaptations.
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The male ( pollen ) cones are produced in pendulous racemes, and shed their pollen in early spring . " Taxodium " species grow pneumatophores, or cypress roots, when growing in or beside water; these are woody projections which rise above the water and are said to help carry oxygen to the root systems.
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Most importantly, mangroves are a transition from the marine to freshwater and terrestrial systems, and provide critical habitat for numerous species of small fish, crabs, shrimps and other crustaceans that adapt to feed and shelter, and reproduce among the tangled mass of roots, known as pneumatophores, which grow upward from the anaerobic mud to get the supply of oxygen.
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