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Categorise the following plants into hydrophytes halophytes, mesophytes and xerophytes and give reasons.
a) Salvinia b) Opuntia c) Rhizophora d) Mangifera

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a) Salvinia is a hydrophyte, It grows on the surface of water.
b) Opuntia is. a xerophyte, grows in xeric (dry) areas .
c) Rhizophora is a Halophyte which tolerate the salinities of the sea.
d) Mangifera is a mesophyte, grows in habitats where water is neither scarce nor not abundant.
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