Mangrove plants are found in :
2021
Mangrove plants are found in :
- A.
Himalaya
- B.
Sundarban
- C.
Desert
- D.
Rainforest
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
Concept: Mangroves are salt-tolerant trees and shrubs that grow in the intertidal zone of tropical and subtropical coastlines — the muddy, waterlogged belt where fresh river water mixes with saline seawater during high and low tides. Their specialised roots (e.g. pneumatophores) are adapted specifically to this tidal, brackish-water, deltaic environment.
Application: The Sundarban lies across the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta on the Bay of Bengal coast (West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh) — a low-lying, tide-affected deltaic wetland that matches this habitat exactly, and it is the world's largest contiguous mangrove forest. So among the given options, mangrove plants are found in the Sundarban.
Cross-check: None of the other options offer this tidal, saline setting:
Himalaya is a high-altitude, cold mountain terrain with no tidal or saline water, so mangroves cannot establish there.
Desert receives very low rainfall and has no standing brackish water, the opposite of the waterlogged conditions mangroves need.
Rainforest, as a generic category, denotes any dense tropical forest defined mainly by high rainfall; it does not specifically denote the tidal, saline, deltaic habitat that mangroves need, so it is not the precise match here.