Description: Bruguiera sexangula, karakandal. From Ezhupunna, Alappuzha. Date: 18 June 2019 (according to Exif data). Source: Own work. Author: Renjusplace.
Description: English: Bruguiera sexangula in the Botanischer Garten, Berlin-Dahlem. Date: 13 December 2019, 14:47:46. Source: Own work. Author: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.
Description: English: Bruguiera sexangula (Lour.) Poir. from Bulon Le Island, Thailand. Date: 20 December 2012. Source: This was taken in an excursion to Bulon Le Island. Author: Psumuseum.
Description: Bruguiera sexangula, karakandal. From Ezhupunna, Alappuzha. Date: 18 June 2019 (according to Exif data). Source: Own work. Author: Renjusplace.
Description: Bruguiera sexangula, karakandal. From Ezhupunna, Alappuzha. Date: 18 June 2019 (according to Exif data). Source: Own work. Author: Renjusplace.
Description: Bruguiera sexangula, karakandal. From Ezhupunna, Alappuzha. Date: 18 June 2019 (according to Exif data). Source: Own work. Author: Renjusplace.
Leaves simple, elliptic, thinly glossy green (7-17 cm L. and 2-8 cm W.). Petiole often reddish (not observed on this picture). Hypocotyl pencil-like, slender, green to 15 cm L. and 0,4 to 0,8 cm W. slightly grooved. Singapore.
Columnar trees (sometimes multi-stemmed), bark dark grey to black, rough and friable, checkered fissuring. Roots thick knee-like pneumatophores_Goaqiao, south-western China.
Flower to mature propagule stage : Calyx reddish with 12 to 14 lobes, petals to 15 mm long, 2-lobed, stamens enclosed in pairs by the petals. Hypocotyl emergent from calyx during maturation, hypocotyl cigar-shaped, terete, elongate, green, to 11-25 cm L. and 1-2 cm W.