Mangrove Trees- I'm pretty sure a lot of you would agree with me that this species of tree is definitely needed for swamp or Coastal maps in the game and it would be interesting to see this added to the game because I feel like we need at least something like this added for tropical decorations in the game. Having at least six different types of mangroves in the game would be awesome if we could place these trees anywhere even in water, who wouldn't want to have these trees with their Spinosaurus, Suchomimus or Baryonyx in a paddock.
also I would love to see an additional mechanic for these trees if you place them in water you get to see small fish species swimming right through these trees in the water similar to how we get to see smaller fish species swimming in around the Lagoon decorations.
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I definitely like this idea. Another option for this is for the developers to add Mangrove plants as vegetation brush, along with Bayou plants. The mangrove plants could provide species with medium amount of ground leaf and ground fruit with a small amount of ground nut; while the bayou plants could provide medium ground leaf, tall leaf, and tall fiber. Some plants that I think could be nice as stand alone decorations are:
Nypa fruticans, more commonly known as the nipa palm (or simply nipa, from Malay: nipah) or mangrove palm, a species of palm native to the coastlines and estuarine habitats of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the only palm considered adapted to the mangrove biome. The leaves can grow up to 9 meters (30 feet) in height. Fossils of fruits and seeds from this plant have been found dating as far back as the late Cretaceous period.
Rhizophora stylosa, better known as the spotted mangrove, red mangrove, small stilted mangrove or stilt-root mangrove, is a tree in the family Rhizophoraceae. grows up to 15 meters (50 feet) tall with a trunk diameter of up to 25 centimeters (10 in). The bark is dark brown to black. Rhizophora stylosa grows naturally in Japan, China, Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malesia, Australia (particularly in New South Wales and Queensland), and many areas of the Pacific. The specific epithet stylosa is from the Latin meaning "stylus form", referring to the flower.
Bruguiera gymnorhiza, also called the large-leafed orange mangrove or oriental mangrove, is a mangrove tree that grows usually to 7–20 meters (23–66 feet) high, but sometimes up to 35 meters (114.82), that belongs to the family Rhizophoraceae. It is found on the seaward side of mangrove swamps, often in the company of Rhizophora. It grows from the Western Pacific across Indian Ocean coasts to Cape Province, South Africa. The fruit and hypocotyls are cooked and eaten in some places. The tree's bark and hypocotyls are used for medical purposes.
Taxodium mucronatum, A large evergreen or semi-evergreen tree growing to 40 m (130 ft) tall and with a trunk of 1–3 meter (3.3–9.8 feet) diameter, that is commonly known as Montezuma bald cypress, Montezuma cypress, or ahuehuete,. It is primarily native to Mexico and Guatemala, with a few populations in the southwestern United States. One specimen, the Árbol del Tule in Santa María del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico, is the stoutest tree in the world with a diameter of 11.42 m (37.5 ft). Several other specimens from 3–6 m (9.8–19.7 ft) diameter are known. Ahuehuete is derived from the Nahuatl name for the tree, āhuēhuētl, which means "upright drum in water" or "old man of the water."
Glyptostrobus pensilis, known in Chinese as 水松 (Shuǐ sōng), and also Chinese swamp cypress, is an endangered conifer, and the sole living species in the genus Glyptostrobus. It is a medium-sized to large deciduous tree, reaching 30 meters (98 feet) tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 meter (3.3 feet), possibly more. It is native to
subtropical southeastern
China, from
Fujian west to southeast
Yunnan, and also very locally in northern
Vietnam and down to central
Laos, where stands exist in the Nakai-Nam Theun area. It typically grows in
river banks,
ponds and
swamps, growing in water up to 60 centimeters (24 inches) deep.
Pilgerodendron, A genus of conifer belonging to the cypress family Cupressaceae. It is a dioecious, slow-growing, narrowly conical evergreen tree that grows from 2–20 m in height, with a trunk up to 1.5 m in diameter. Taller specimens and wider trunks (reportedly up to 3 m in diameter) are known to have existed before it was overexploited. It is endemic to the Valdivian temperate rain forests and Magellanic subpolar forests of southern Chile and southwestern Argentina. It grows from 40 to 54°20' S in Tierra del Fuego, where it is the southernmost conifer in the world. It is a member of subfamily Callitroideae, a group of distinct Southern Hemisphere genera associated with the Antarctic flora.
