Question

What are lenticels?What are pneumatophores?​

Answer 1

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Respiratory or knee roots (pneumatophores) are characteristic of many species; they project above the mud and have small openings (lenticels) through which air enters, passing through the soft spongy tissue to the roots beneath the mud.

Answer 2

Answer:

What are lenticels?

• one of many raised pores in the stem of a woody plant that allows gas exchange between the atmosphere and the internal tissues.

what are Pneumatophores?

•Pneumatophores are specialized root structures that grow out from the water surface and facilitate the aeration necessary for root respiration in hydrophytic trees such as many mangrove species (e.g., Avicennia germinans and Laguncularia raecemosa), bald cypresses, and cotton (tupelo) gum (Nyssa aquatica).