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Examples of modified aboveground roots.

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(a) Buttress roots help to keep tropical trees, such as this Pterocarpus hayesii, from toppling in windstorms. (b) Pneumatophores produced by mangroves are roots that extend upward into the air. These roots take up air and then transmit it to underwater roots that grow in oxygen-poor sediments.
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