Short Tale Challenge #9

“Each Tuesday, I will be putting up a prompt and you can simply publish a post on your own blog responding to the prompt. The task is to write a short tale in no more than 100 words.”

Last Tuesday’s Prompt was “Mangroves”

Short Tale Challenge #8 Roundup:

Here is the roundup to last Tuesday’s prompt. Be sure to visit their blogs.

Short Tale Challenge #8 – Mangroves Pantoum Poem by Elsie Hagley is a Writer

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

Mangroves are salt tolerant trees and adapted to life in harsh coastal conditions.

Containing a complex salt filtration system, in the roots to cope with the conditions

They are adapted to the low oxygen (anoxic) conditions of waterlogged mud.

Mangroves are salt tolerant trees and adapted to life in harsh coastal conditions.

About 110 species are considered “mangroves” that have adapted to low oxygen

They are adapted to the low oxygen (anoxic) conditions of waterlogged mud.

Mangroves in the sense of being a tree that grows in a saline swamp and survives.

About 110 species are considered “mangroves” that have adapted to low oxygen

Red mangroves, which can survive in the most inundated areas store salt in cells

Mangroves in the sense of being a tree that grows in a saline swamp and survives.

They prop above the water level with stilt roots absorbing air through pores in the bark.

Red mangroves, which can survive in the most inundated areas store salt in cells

Red mangroves exclude salt by having significantly impermeable roots

They prop above the water level with stilt roots absorbing air through pores in the bark

Acting as an ultra-filtration mechanism to exclude sodium salts from the rest of the plant.

Red mangroves exclude salt by having significantly impermeable roots

Containing a complex salt filtration system, in the roots to cope with the conditions

Acting as an ultra-filtration mechanism to exclude sodium salts from the rest of the plant.

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

Today’s prompt is “Lighthouse”

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