Nigel Cattlin / Itchgrass (Rottboellia cochinchinensis) prop / brace roots elevating plant above soil. An agressive weed of crops particularly in tropical and sub-tropical climates.
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Nigel Cattlin / Itchgrass (Rottboellia cochinchinensis) prop / brace roots elevating plant above soil. An agressive weed of crops particularly in tropical and sub-tropical climates.
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Duncan Murrell / Tabaras akar tenggi tree (Mesua sp.), Sabangau (peat-swamp) Forest, Kalimantan, Indonesia. The roots are chopped up and dried to use as firewood, and Its trunk is cut and used to cultivate mushrooms.
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Shane Gross / Boat propeller scar runs through a Seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) meadow in The Bahamas. The prop scar is caused by a boat's propeller digging up the root structure of the underwater plant.
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Ashley Cooper / Old house at Recherchefjorden, Van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is gradually sliding down slope due to solifluction and permafrost melt. Norway, July 2013.
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Ashley Cooper / Old house at Recherchefjorden, Van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is gradually sliding down slope due to solifluction and permafrost melt. Norway, July 2013.
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David Fleetham / Diver swimming behind coral growing on the prop of the wrecked "Hilma Hooker," a 236 foot long cargo vessel that sunk in 1984 off Bonaire, Caribbean. June 2008. Model released
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David Fleetham / Divers ascend past the prop on the wreck of the "Hilma Hooker", a 236ft long cargo vessel that sunk in 1984 off Bonaire in the Caribbean. June 2008.
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Nick Hawkins / Red mangrove forest (Rhizophora mangle) along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, March 2015.
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Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) pup, aged a few weeks, caught in the wild and shown at a famous camel trekking site for tourists in the hope of either selling it or being paid for photos, Kebili Governorate...
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Adrian Davies / Common screwpine (Pandanus utilis) prop roots. Occurs in Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles.
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Luiz Claudio Marigo / Tree with prop roots in Varzea seasonally flooded forest on the shore of Mamiraua Lake, Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve, Alvaraes, Amazon, Amazonas State, Northern Brazil.