Plants · La Saladita, Guerrero

White Mangrove

Laguncularia racemosa

Spanish: Mangle blanco

White Mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa)
Photographed by pimienta on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC

Laguncularia racemosa, the white mangrove, is a species of flowering plant in the leadwood tree family, Combretaceae. It is native to the coasts of western Africa from Senegal to Cameroon, the Atlantic coast of the Americas from Bermuda, Florida, the Bahamas, Mexico, the Caribbean and south to Brazil; and on the Pacific coast of the Americas from Mexico to northwestern Peru, including the Galápagos Islands.

TaxonomyMagnoliopsida › Myrtales › Combretaceae
Local records21 research-grade observations within about 50 km of La Saladita (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones)
Global records9,489 on iNaturalist
Most recent records2025 – 2026
Months of the 8 most recent records
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Recent local sightings

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Cite as: “White Mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/laguncularia-racemosa/, updated 2026-10-18. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.