Wildlife found in hammocks can include tree snails, raccoons, opossums, birds, snakes, lizards, tree frogs and large animals such as the Florida panther, bobcats and deer. Mangroves Mangroves bordering mud flats exposed by low tide. Typically, red mangroves grow along the water's edge, black mangroves grow on slightly higher elevations than the red mangrove and white mangroves grow upland from the red and black. The buttonwood is often associated with the mangrove community. It is usually found growing with the white mangrove, upland of the red and black mangroves.
Mangroves grow in flooded saltwater areas and are salt tolerant.
Normally found with the white mangrove, upland of the red and black mangroves. Button-like seeds of the buttonwood tree. Readily identified by its arching and branching prop roots from trunks and drop roots from branches. These roots help keep the red mangrove anchored in places where it might be unstable for other plants. White mangroves are normally found upland of the red and black mangroves.